Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 20-29Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.11.003
Keywords
Environmental activism; Pro-environmental behaviour; Nature relatedness; Nature connectedness; Social identity theory; Collective identity
Funding
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [435-2018-0331]
- Simon Fraser University Teaching and Learning Development Grant
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Abundant evidence suggests that pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is promoted by a subjective sense of oneness with nature-what we conceptualize as identification with nature. For environmental activist behaviour, however, we hypothesize that a stronger, more direct predictor is politicized environmental identification-identification with a group that is engaged in a collective struggle to create pro-environmental social change. Furthermore, we predicted that politicized identification would mediate an indirect relationship between identification with nature and environmental activism. Cross-sectional evidence for these predictions was found in Studies 1 and 2. In Study 3, a longitudinal study, change in politicized environmental identification over a three-month period predicted change in activist PEB, but change in identification with nature did not. Overall results suggest that politicized environmental identification is a proximal predictor of activism that warrants increased attention in theory, research and Interventions aimed at motivating PEB.
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