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The Environmental Psychology of the Ecological Citizen: Comparing Competing Models of Pro‐Environmental Behavior*
Author(s) -
Jagers Sverker C.,
Martinsson Johan,
Matti Simon
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
social science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1540-6237
pISSN - 0038-4941
DOI - 10.1111/ssqu.12313
Subject(s) - explanatory power , stern , predictive power , norm (philosophy) , psychology , citizenship , ecology , social psychology , sociology , politics , political science , epistemology , philosophy , marine engineering , engineering , biology , law
Objectives The overall objective of this article is to contribute to the identification of underlying factors causing individuals’ pro‐environmental behavior (PEB). Methods This is done by the amalgamation of an empirically‐derived theory originating in the behavioral science research—the value‐belief‐norm (VBN) theory (e.g., Stern et al., 1999)—and a rather recently developed theory in political science—the ecological citizenship (EC) model (e.g., Dobson, 2003). Using survey data, this article empirically tests the explanatory power of these two theories, both separately and as a joint model.