Reflecting on behavioral spillover in context: How do behavioral motivations and awareness catalyze other environmentally-responsible actions in Brazil, China and Denmark?
| Autor: | Stuart Capstick, Lorraine Whitmarsh, John Thøgersen, Nicholas Nash, Xiao Wang, Marie K. Harder, Rafaella de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo, Yuebai Liu, Valdiney Veloso Gouveia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Behavioral spillover
China Unconscious mind Denmark lcsh:BF1-990 Context (language use) Interpersonal communication 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine cross-cultural Spillover effect Phenomenon Psychology Cross-cultural 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Original Research Recall behavioral spillover pro-environmental behaviour 05 social sciences Pro-environmental behaviour lcsh:Psychology Action (philosophy) qualitative Qualitative Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Nash, N, Whitmarsh, L, Capstick, S, Thøgersen, J, Gouvela, V, de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo, R, K. Harder, M, Wang, X & Liu, Y 2019, ' Reflecting on Behavioral Spillover in Context : How Do Behavioral Motivations and Awareness Catalyze Other Environmentally Responsible Actions in Brazil, China, and Denmark? ', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, 788 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00788 Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 10 (2019) Frontiers in Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00788 |
| Popis: | Responding to serious environmental problems, requires urgent and fundamental shifts in our day-to-day lifestyles. This paper employs a qualitative, cross-cultural approach to explore people's subjective self-reflections on their experiences of pro-environmental behavioral spillover in three countries; Brazil, China, and Denmark. Behavioral spillover is an appealing yet elusive phenomenon, but offers a potential way of encouraging wider, voluntary lifestyle shifts beyond the scope of single behavior change interventions. Behavioral spillover theory proposes that engaging in one pro-environmental action can catalyze the performance of others. To date, evidence for the phenomenon has been mixed, and the causal processes governing relationships between behaviors appear complex, inconsistent and only partly understood. This paper addresses a gap in the literature by investigating accounts of behavioral spillover in three diverse cultural settings using qualitative semi-structured interviews. The analysis shows that while around half of participants overall who were questioned recalled spillover effects, the other half had not consciously experienced spillover. There were few significant differences across cultures, though some forms of spillover effects were reported more in some cultures than others. More environmentally engaged participants across all three countries were significantly more likely to experience spillover than those who were less engaged. Accounts of within-domain spillovers were most commonly reported, mainly comprising waste, resource conservation and consumption-related actions. Accounts of between-domain spillover were very rare. Recollection of contextual and interpersonal spillover effects also emerged from the interviews. Our findings suggest that more conscious behavioral spillover pathways may be limited to those with pre-existing environmental values. Behavioral spillover may comprise multiple pathways incorporating conscious and unconscious processes. We conclude that targeting behavioral catalysts that generate more socially diffuse spillover effects could offer more potential than conventional spillover involving a single individual. |
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