Cultural Variability in the Link Between Environmental Concern and Support for Environmental Action

被引:194
作者
Eom, Kimin [1 ]
Kim, Heejung S. [1 ]
Sherman, David K. [1 ]
Ishii, Keiko [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Kobe Univ, Dept Psychol, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
culture; norms; individualism; sustainability; proenvironmental action; open materials; SELF; INDIVIDUALISM; COLLECTIVISM; PREFERENCES; PSYCHOLOGY; AMERICANS; INDIANS; CHOICES; PEOPLE;
D O I
10.1177/0956797616660078
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Research on sustainability behaviors has been based on the assumption that increasing personal concerns about the environment will increase proenvironmental action. We tested whether this assumption is more applicable to individualistic cultures than to collectivistic cultures. In Study 1, we compared 47 countries (N = 57,268) and found that they varied considerably in the degree to which environmental concern predicted support for proenvironmental action. National-level individualism explained the between-nation variability above and beyond the effects of other cultural values and independently of person-level individualism. In Study 2, we compared individualistic and collectivistic nations (United States vs. Japan; N = 251) and found culture-specific predictors of proenvironmental behavior. Environmental concern predicted environmentally friendly consumer choice among European Americans but not Japanese. For Japanese participants, perceived norms about environmental behavior predicted proenvironmental decision making. Facilitating sustainability across nations requires an understanding of how culture determines which psychological factors drive human action.
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页码:1331 / 1339
页数:9
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