Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 435-473Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0013916505283421
Keywords
waste management behavior; conceptual framework; values; attitudes; situational variables; United Kingdom
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Three waste management behaviors (waste reduction, reuse, and recycling) were examined with the use of a conceptual framework developed by the author. It was posited that environmental values, situational characteristics, and psychological factors all play a significant role in the prediction of waste management behavior, within the context of a core intention-behavior relationship. The framework was tested in a self-report questionnaire of 673 residents of Exeter, UK. It was found that the predictors of reduction, reuse, and recycling behavior differed significantly, with reduction and reuse being predicted by underlying environmental values, knowledge, and concern-based variables. Recycling behavior was, in contrast, characterized as highly normative behavior. The use of the approach taken for investigating other environmental behaviors is examined.
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