Why Are You Doing Things for the Environment? The Motivation Toward the Environment Scale (MTES)1

Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Tập 28 Số 5 - Trang 437-468 - 1998
Luc G. Pelletier1, Kim M. Tuson2, Isabelle Green‐Demers1, Kimberley Noels3, Ann M. Beaton4
1University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2Northern Telecom (Nortel) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3University of California at Santa Barbara
4Université de Moncton, Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada.

Tóm tắt

This paper presents 4 studies which were conducted for the purpose of constructing and validating a new measure of people's motivation for environmental behaviors, namely the Motivation Toward the Environment Scale (MTES). The MTES consists of subscales that measure an individual's level of intrinsic, extrinsic, and a motivation for environmental behaviors. These subscales correspond to the different forms of motivation identified by Deci and Ryan in their self‐determination theory (SDT, 1985, 1991). Results from the first study supported the factor structure of the scale and revealed a satisfactory level of internal consistency. Consistent with the SDT, the more self‐determined forms of motivation were associated with more positive responses on the related variables. Implications for the manner in which the public could be encouraged to do environmental behaviors are discussed.

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