in this research, we have investigated the relationship between psychological and social factors and green consumer behavior in tehran. with a sample size of 316, we have examined 15 hypotheses. the positive significant relationship between environmental attitudes, personal norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, and social (injunctive) norms with green consumer behavior dimensions (green purc...

this study has been conducted with the purpose of examining effects of cultural factors on environmental protection and environmental behaviors. the ideas of different thinkers including durkheim, weber, parsons, giddens and jorge tome have been used to provide the relevant theoretical frame. in this study survey method and questionnaire technique (on 400 people from districts 5 and 18 of tehra...

Investigating the relationship between cultural capital and environmental behaviors among youth employed in Asalouyeh (South Pars) is the main purpose of this study. Secondary objective of the study is to discover relationship between social associations, social norms and social trust and environmental social behaviors of the employees of south Pars. The research method in this study was survey...

Recently, environmental crises have become important challenges for humans. Many scientists have made efforts to reduce or prevent these crises by technological solutions. However, some researchers have emphasized on the necessity of new interactions between human and nature and the need for a new environmental culture. The present study aimed to assess the environmental culture and its influen...

In the present article we test a social marketing tool, to induce pro-environmental consumer behavior. The tool intends to do so by changing a target’s self-perception from someone who usually does not engage in pro-environmental behavior to someone who usually engages in pro-environmental behavior. It is based on the assumption that people may fail to view themselves as environmentally conscio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate associations between psychosocial and social-environmental variables and diabetes self-management, and diabetes control. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Baseline data from a type 2 diabetes self-management randomized trial with 463 adults having elevated BMI (M = 34.8 kg/m(2)) were used to investigate relations among demographic, psychosocial, and social-environmental variab...

Social identities predict pro-environmental behavior, but the strength may depend on whether the behavior is visible to others. When an environmentalist considers a pro-environmental behavior such as carrying reusable grocery bags, being observed by others may motivate signaling the valued group membership and may increase behavior (“green to be seen”). When an anti-environmentalist considers a...

We conducted an in-depth, micro-level process analysis of 36 experimental groups working on a decision-making task in either desktop videoconferencing, audio conferencing or face-to-face environments. Using the framework of Giddens’ structuration theory, we observed social structures producing behaviors and social structures reproducing behaviors that participants exhibited during the experimen...