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New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior: Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible Behavior

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: This article contends that while striving to promote environmentallyresponsible behavior, we have focused attention too narrowly on just two classes of motives. There is a need to expand the range of motives available to practitioners and to provide a framework within which motives can be evaluated for both their immediate and long‐term effectiveness. The article then examines a strategy for promoting environmentally responsible behavior that has significant potential. This strategy is based on a particular form of motivation called intrinsic satisfaction. Nine studies are reviewed that have outlined the structure of intrinsic satisfaction. A key theme discussed is the human inclination for competence. This fundamental human concern is shown to have both a general form and a resource‐specific version.

Source: Journal of Social Issues

DOI: 10.1111/0022-4537.00181

Author: Raymond De Young

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Princeton University, University of Michigan

Awards: Aspherical Manifolds and Dynamical Systems, G2351744653