- AutorIn
- Giuseppe Carrus
- Lorenza Tiberio
- Stefano Mastandrea
- Parissa Chokrai
- Immo Fritsche
- Christian A. Klöckner
- Torsten Masson
- Stepan Vesely
- Angelo Panno
- Titel
- Psychological Predictors of Energy Saving Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Approach
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-844490
- Quellenangabe
- Frontiers in psychology
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Jahrgang: 12
E-ISSN: 1664-1078
Artikelnummer: 648221 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2021
- Abstract (EN)
- Understanding how psychological processes drive human energy choices is an urgent, and yet relatively under-investigated, need for contemporary society. A knowledge gap still persists on the links between psychological factors identified in earlier studies and people’s behaviors in the energy domain. This research applies a meta-analytical procedure to assess the strength of the associations between five different classes of individual variables (i.e.,: attitudes, intentions, values, awareness, and emotions) and energy-saving behavioral intentions and behaviors (self-reported and actual). Based on a systematic review of studies published between 2007 and 2017, we estimate the average effect size of predictor-criterion relations, and we assess relevant moderators and publication bias, drawing on data obtained from 102 independent samples reported in 67 published studies (N = 59.948). Results from a series of five single meta-analyses reveal a pattern of significant positive associations between the selected psychological determinants and energy-saving indicators: associations between individual-level predictors and energy-saving outcomes are positive and moderate in size, ranging from large effects for emotions to small-moderate effects for pro-environmental values. Interestingly, moderation analysis reveals, among other things, that attitude-behavior links are not statistically significant when actual behavior is considered as an outcome. Implications for policy interventions are discussed.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zur Erstveröffentlichung
Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648221 - Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- meta-analysis, energy saving behaviors, attitudes, intentions, values, awareness, emotions
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 150
- Verlag
- Frontiers Research Foundation, Lausanne
- Förder- / Projektangaben
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-844490
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 31.03.2023
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
- CC BY 4.0