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Commitment to the environment: the role of subjective norms in college and community samples
Author(s) -
Davis Jody L.,
Le Benjamin,
Coy Anthony E.,
Rickert Jeffrey,
Regan Benjamin,
Ridgeway Kristen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12320
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , value (mathematics) , sacrifice , natural (archaeology) , social value orientations , microeconomics , economics , archaeology , machine learning , computer science , history
We tested a model of antecedents and outcomes of commitment to the environment, defined as psychological attachment and long‐term orientation to the natural world, hypothesizing that satisfaction with, investments in, and subjective norms about the environment would predict commitment, which, in turn, would predict willingness to sacrifice for the environment. In two studies, the model was supported in undergraduate and community samples, and for general commitment to the environment as well as commitment to specific proenvironmental behaviors. Individuals who are satisfied with and invested in the natural world, and who believe that those close to them value it as well, are likely to be committed to the environment and be willing to forego selfish interests to behave proenvironmentally.