What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement

The gap between environmental attitudes and behaviour prompts consideration of social structural barriers to pro-environmental action. A mixed methods exploratory sequential design was used to understand the relationship between environmental identity and social status of pro-environmental behaviour...

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Main Author: Uren, Hannah Velure
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80869
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description The gap between environmental attitudes and behaviour prompts consideration of social structural barriers to pro-environmental action. A mixed methods exploratory sequential design was used to understand the relationship between environmental identity and social status of pro-environmental behaviours. Environmental public-identity was found to be a part of a higher order construct of environmental identity, which predicted engagement in pro-environmental behaviour. High status pro-environmental behaviours were costly, effortful, and visible, replicating the status quo.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-808692020-09-02T02:46:24Z What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement Uren, Hannah Velure The gap between environmental attitudes and behaviour prompts consideration of social structural barriers to pro-environmental action. A mixed methods exploratory sequential design was used to understand the relationship between environmental identity and social status of pro-environmental behaviours. Environmental public-identity was found to be a part of a higher order construct of environmental identity, which predicted engagement in pro-environmental behaviour. High status pro-environmental behaviours were costly, effortful, and visible, replicating the status quo. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80869 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Uren, Hannah Velure
What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title_full What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title_fullStr What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title_full_unstemmed What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title_short What Does it Mean to be Green in Australia? Status, Identity, and Pro-environmental Engagement
title_sort what does it mean to be green in australia? status, identity, and pro-environmental engagement
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80869