Discrete emotions in the face of climate change and dimensions of pro-environmental behaviors
(2024) 18th International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (ICM) 2024 — Location: Bern, Switzerland (28.August.2024)
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- Adopting more environmentally-friendly behaviors is one way for mitigating climate change. It is also a central goal of Environmental Education. Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) were suggested to be multidimensional by some scholars, yet the proposed dimensions vary between studies. Climate change can also arouse very intense emotions in individuals, but the extent to which these emotions support or hinder the adoption of PEBs remains an open question. To better understand the relationships between emotions and PEBs, first it seems important to take into account the different characteristics of those emotions: their positive or negative valence, their activating or deactivating nature, the approach or avoidance motivations they generate, or their mixed nature. Next, it seems relevant to control for the effect of other, more classical predictors of PEBs, such as those considered by other theoretical models, like for instance the Theory of Planned Behavior (attitude, social norms, self-efficacy). Thus, the aim of the study is to investigate the relationships between several discrete emotions (having specific characteristics) and different dimensions of PEBs, while controlling for perceived social norms, attitude, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions. 1,572 individuals aged between 16 and 98 participated to an anonymous survey. Consistently with other studies, two dimensions of PEBs were identified through EFA, a private and a public one. Each dimension of PEBs was associated with specific discrete emotions in multiple regression analyses, some positively and other negatively. The practical implications of these results will be discussed.
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Davreux, Z., & Galand, B. (2024). Discrete emotions in the face of climate change and dimensions of pro-environmental behaviors. 18th International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (ICM) 2024, Bern, Switzerland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/248826