Green climate and pro‐environmental behavior: Addressing attitude‐behavior gaps towards promoting sustainable development
Yan Zhang,
Jiangguo Du and
Kofi Baah Boamah
Sustainable Development, 2023, vol. 31, issue 4, 2428-2445
Abstract:
Based on the Stimulus‐Organism‐Response theory, this paper extends knowledge by examining both the direct and indirect effect of green climate on pro‐environmental behavior whilst incorporating the following two multidimensional measures: group identification and social norm measure as mediator and moderator, respectively. The study extends current knowledge by addressing the attitude‐behavior gaps eminent in most papers. Consequently, this study provides in depth knowledge on the mechanisms underpinning the role of individuals and also their role as influenced by the group they belong to. Further, this study proffer knowledge from the perspective of both private and public sphere pro‐environmental behavior. The present study employed structural equation modeling using a survey from a dataset of 836 respondents. The findings revealed that green climate positively influence public‐sphere behavior. Further, green climate indirectly affects private‐sphere behavior through group identification. Again, our study found that group identification partially mediates the relationship between green climate and public‐sphere behavior. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are further discussed.
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)
Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2520
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:31:y:2023:i:4:p:2428-2445
Access Statistics for this article
Sustainable Development is currently edited by Richard Welford
More articles in Sustainable Development from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().