Explaining environmental behavior across borders: A meta-analysis

Meike Morren; Amir Grinstein

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.05.003

Explaining environmental behavior across borders: A meta-analysis

Meike Morren, Amir Grinstein

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Abstract

Understanding how determinants of environmental behavior vary across countries and national cultures is an urgent, understudied need. The current research applies meta-analysis to test within the theory of planned behavior (TPB) the moderating role of country (development) and national culture (individualism-collectivism) characteristics, using the most recent research (2004–2014), involving 66 articles from 28 countries. The results suggest that in developed and individualistic countries, intention to behave environmentally is more likely to translate to actual behavior, and that attitudes toward the environment are related to environmental intention. Also, in developed countries perceived behavioral control is partially related to environmental intention. Furthermore, the environmental context studied influences the results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	91-106
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Environmental Psychology
Volume	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.05.003
State	Published - 1 Sep 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cross-national
Environmental behavior
Green marketing
Intention
Meta-analysis
National culture
Sustainability
Theory of planned behavior

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Social Psychology
Applied Psychology

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