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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Constraints on environmental behavior
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Carmen Tanner
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Environmental Psychology
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0272-4944
Volume 19
Number 2
Page Range 145 - 157
Date 1999
Abstract Text The purpose of this study was to examine crucial predictors of driving frequency. In contrast to traditional psychological environmental research emphasizing primarily personal variables in explaining environmental behavior, the perspective taken in this article is that behavior is generally prevented by a host of constraints. Therefore, this study was aimed at identifying prevalent constraints inhibiting individuals from reducing their driving frequency. By means of questionnaire data collected from a sample of Swiss adults two classes of constraints were examined: (a) Subjective factors that were assumed to affect the preference for proenvironmental behavioral alternatives (sense of responsibility, perceived behavioral barriers); and (b) objective conditions that inhibit the performance of proenvironmental action (socio-demographic variables such as lack of automobile, place of residence, income). Multiple regression analyses indicated that subjective constraints explained a significant amount of variance in behavioral reports, but structural constraints also contributed to explaining variance. Theoretical and applied implications of examining constraints to which people are subjected to and implications for further research are discussed.
Official URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494499901214
Digital Object Identifier 10.1006/jevp.1999.0121
Other Identification Number merlin-id:21172
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