Spillover between pro-environmental behaviours: The role of resources and perceived similarity

Elise A Margetts; Yoshihisa Kashima

Journal article

Spillover between pro-environmental behaviours: The role of resources and perceived similarity

Elise A Margetts, Yoshihisa Kashima

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.07.005

Abstract

Pro-environmental behavioural spillover – when performing one pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) increases the likelihood of performing another – has been identified as a possible way to increase the amount of environmentally friendly behaviours that individuals perform. The current research investigated this spillover process, the role of chronic environmental motivations, goal priming and behavioural similarity. Three studies (two conducted with students and one conducted with the general Australian public) provided evidence to suggest that positive spillover occurs between PEBs that are similar in terms of the resources required to perform them, but not between PEBs that are resource-dissi..

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Yoshihisa Kashima Author Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This research was part of the first author's PhD thesis which was supported by a Faculty Research Scholarship from The University of Melbourne as well as an Australian Postgraduate Award. Part of the research reported in this paper was supported by grant DP130102229 from the Australian Research Council awarded to the second author.