The Examination of the Effects of Hearing Skeptical Opinions on Pro-environmental Behavior

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  • TAKAURA Yusuke
    Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
  • KIMURA Koki
    Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
  • IKEDA Ken′ichi
    Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

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  • 環境懐疑派の意見への接触が人々の環境配慮行動に及ぼす効果の検討
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In this research we empirically examined how the experience of hearing opinions that are skeptical about environmental problems affects pro-environmental behavior.<BR>Hypothesis1. “There are significant interaction effects between hearing opinions being skeptical about environmental problems and the involvement in environmental problems on criticized pro-environmental behavior”<BR>1-a. “When the involvement in environmental problems is higher, the more people hear opinions being skeptical about environmental problems, the less people address criticized pro-environmental behavior”<BR>1-b. “When the involvement in environmental problems is lower, hearing opinions being skeptical about environmental problems does not affect criticized pro-environmental behavior“<BR>Hypothesis2. ”There is no interaction effect between hearing skeptical opinions and the involvement in environmental problems on non-criticized pro-environmental behavior”<BR>We conducted a mail survey in 2009 at Itabashi ward, Tokyo. The results showed that there were significant interaction effects between hearing skeptical opinions and the involvement in environmental problems on criticized pro-environmental behavior (support Hypothesis1-a, did not support Hypothesis1-b), while there were neither main effect nor interaction effect on non-criticized pro-environmental behavior (support Hypothesis2).

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 25 (3), 184-191, 2012

    SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

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