TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivations to Act for the Protection of Nature Biodiversity and the Environment
T2 - A Matter of “Significance”
AU - Molinario, Erica
AU - Kruglanski, Arie W.
AU - Bonaiuto, Flavia
AU - Bonnes, Mirilia
AU - Cicero, Lavinia
AU - Fornara, Ferdinando
AU - Scopelliti, Massimiliano
AU - Admiraal, Jeroen
AU - Beringer, Almut
AU - Dedeurwaerdere, Tom
AU - deGroot, Wouter
AU - Hiedanpää, Juha
AU - Knights, Paul
AU - Knippenberg, Luuk
AU - Ovdenden, Chris
AU - Polajnar Horvat, Katarina
AU - Popa, Florin
AU - Porras-Gomez, Carmen
AU - Smrekar, Aleš
AU - Soethe, Nathalie
AU - Vivero-Pol, Jose Luis
AU - van den Born, Riyan J.G.
AU - Bonaiuto, Marino
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Environmental activism, defined as a range of difficult pro-environmental behaviors, is analyzed within the conceptual framework of Significance Quest Theory (SQT). In Study 1, 40 interviews were carried out on two groups of people in the European Union: Committed Actors for Nature (CANs, n = 25) versus Committed Actors for Society (CASs, n = 15). Results demonstrated that Significance Quest (SQ) motivates each group to be strongly committed to their chosen action and the main difference between them being in their ideology (pro-social vs. pro-environmental). In Study 2 (N = 131), the relationship between SQ and intention to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors was assessed. Results suggested that the higher the SQ, the higher the tendency to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors, but not average or easy ones. Moreover, the higher the pro-environmental ideology, the stronger the indirect effect of SQ on difficult behavior through willingness to sacrifice.
AB - Environmental activism, defined as a range of difficult pro-environmental behaviors, is analyzed within the conceptual framework of Significance Quest Theory (SQT). In Study 1, 40 interviews were carried out on two groups of people in the European Union: Committed Actors for Nature (CANs, n = 25) versus Committed Actors for Society (CASs, n = 15). Results demonstrated that Significance Quest (SQ) motivates each group to be strongly committed to their chosen action and the main difference between them being in their ideology (pro-social vs. pro-environmental). In Study 2 (N = 131), the relationship between SQ and intention to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors was assessed. Results suggested that the higher the SQ, the higher the tendency to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors, but not average or easy ones. Moreover, the higher the pro-environmental ideology, the stronger the indirect effect of SQ on difficult behavior through willingness to sacrifice.
KW - difficult pro-environmental behaviors
KW - environmental activism
KW - meaning in life
KW - pro-environmental behaviors
KW - pro-environmental ideology
KW - willingness to sacrifice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060923910&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0013916518824376
DO - 10.1177/0013916518824376
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060923910
SN - 0013-9165
JO - Environment and Behavior
JF - Environment and Behavior
ER -