• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Motivations to Act for the Protection of Nature Biodiversity and the Environment: A Matter of “Significance”
  • Beteiligte: Molinario, Erica; Kruglanski, Arie W.; Bonaiuto, Flavia; Bonnes, Mirilia; Cicero, Lavinia; Fornara, Ferdinando; Scopelliti, Massimiliano; Admiraal, Jeroen; Beringer, Almut; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; deGroot, Wouter; Hiedanpää, Juha; Knights, Paul; Knippenberg, Luuk; Ovdenden, Chris; Polajnar Horvat, Katarina; Popa, Florin; Porras-Gomez, Carmen; Smrekar, Aleš; Soethe, Nathalie; Vivero-Pol, Jose Luis; van den Born, Riyan J. G.; Bonaiuto, Marino
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2020
  • Erschienen in: Environment and Behavior
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0013916518824376
  • ISSN: 0013-9165; 1552-390X
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>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.</jats:p>