Seeing past the tip of your own nose? How outward and self-centred orientations could contribute to closing the green gap despite helplessness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F23%3A00130517" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/23:00130517 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01128-z" target="_blank" >https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01128-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01128-z" target="_blank" >10.1186/s40359-023-01128-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Seeing past the tip of your own nose? How outward and self-centred orientations could contribute to closing the green gap despite helplessness
Original language description
Background The present study explored moderators of the relation between environmental concerns and pro-envi- ronmental behaviour that could help close the green gap. Methods A sample of 500 individuals (250 women) participated in the study. Apart from socio-demographic char- acteristics, participants answered questions about their environmental concerns and pro-environmental behaviour, collectivism and individualism, time orientation and emotional responses to climate change. Results Our results corroborate the view that collectivism, future orientation and prosocial tendencies may form a single component of outward orientation, while individualism and immediate orientation form self-centred ori- entation. Generally, outwardly oriented individuals and those less self-centred reported more pro-environmental behaviour. However, strongly self-centred individuals, even when reporting elevated helplessness, showed increased involvement in pro-environmental behaviour once their concerns were high. Conclusions The study contributes to the literature by pointing out that both outward and self-centred orientations have the potential to insulate individuals against the negative effect helplessness may have on pro-environmental behaviour. This could inform strategies that would both prompt individuals already concerned to act and arouse more concern among those who are not yet preoccupied with climate change.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
BMC Psychology
ISSN
2050-7283
e-ISSN
2050-7283
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
000953167300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150966248