Who has the future in mind?
- An individual's relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual's gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time-orientation. In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmentalAn individual's relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual's gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time-orientation. In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmental behaviour.…
Verfasserangaben: | Christin HoffmannORCiDGND, Julia Amelie HoppeORCiD, Niklas ZiemannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9296 |
ISSN: | 1748-9326 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Environmental research letters |
Untertitel (Englisch): | gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
Verlag: | Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) |
Verlagsort: | Bristol |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 27.09.2022 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 12.04.2024 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | gender differences; incentivised choices; pro-environmental behaviour; time perspectives |
Band: | 17 |
Ausgabe: | 10 |
Aufsatznummer: | 104026 |
Seitenanzahl: | 9 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 69 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk / 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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