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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2019
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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 |