Environment and Behavior
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The Use of Prompts, Increased Accessibility, Visibility, and Aesthetics of the Stairwell to Promote Stair Use in a University Building Physical activity in the form of consistently opting for stair use instead of elevator use can have important health benefits. The article discusses a study assessing whether increasing the attractiveness and accessibility of a stairwell had an impact on stair use among students and employees of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. The intervention involves multiple environmental chang... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 43 Số 1 - Trang 131-139 - 2011
Time Perspective and Sustainable Behavior The authors examined the efficacy of a two-factor model of consideration of future consequences (CFC) in understanding environmentally sustainable behaviors. In Study 1, individual differences in CFC-Immediate and CFC-Future were examined as predictors of environmental concern (EC) and behavior motivation (EB), controlling for values and sociodemographic variables. Results showed that low... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 46 Số 5 - Trang 556-582 - 2014
Associations Between Neighborhood Open Space Attributes and Quality of Life for Older People in Britain The existing literature suggests that neighborhood open space (NOS) may play an important role for older people in maintaining and enhancing their quality of life (QoL). However, little is known as to what attributes of such places are relevant to QoL in late life. This study explored what aspects of NOS are associated with health, life satisfaction, and outdoor activity (walking) for old... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 41 Số 1 - Trang 3-21 - 2009
Environmental Correlates of Active Travel Behavior of Children This study explored the participation of children in walking and bicycling for transportation, school, and various leisure purposes, and the relation with social and physical environmental characteristics and sociodemographics. Detailed individual travel data, including all walking and bicycling trips from a random sample of 4,293 children in the primary-school-age category in the Netherl... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 46 Số 5 - Trang 583-608 - 2014
The Elderly in Context Older people must be understood in terms of changes that occur both in themselves and in the world around them. The transactions between older people and their environments are discussed in terms of the support-autonomy dialectic and specific behaviors involving environmental reactivity and proactivity. Three examples of research are discussed to illustrate how autonomy is maintained on o... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 501-519 - 1985
Techno-Optimism and Farmers’ Attitudes Toward Climate Change Adaptation In industrialized societies, techno-optimism is a belief that human ingenuity, through improved science and technology, will ultimately provide remedies to most current and future threats to human well-being, such as diseases, climate change, and poverty. Here we examine (a) whether techno-optimism is found among Midwestern corn and soybean farmers and (b) how this confidence in human ing... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 52 Số 1 - Trang 82-105 - 2020
Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors 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 f... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 39 Số 4 - Trang 435-473 - 2007
A Systematic Review of Agreement Between Perceived and Objective Neighborhood Environment Measures and Associations With Physical Activity Outcomes A number of review studies document associations between the perceived and objectively measured neighborhood environment and physical activity. However, current evidence does not discern whether perceived or objective variables more consistently predict physical activity. A review is needed to examine the comparability of these variables and the consistency of their respective association... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 49 Số 8 - Trang 904-932 - 2017
A Tale of Two Scales: Evaluating the Relationship Among Life Satisfaction, Social Capital, Income, and the Natural Environment at Individual and Neighborhood Levels in Metropolitan Baltimore With the rapid growth of cities worldwide, there is a need to better understand factors contributing to life satisfaction in urban environments. Using data from a long-term study of the Baltimore metropolitan region, we build on existing social scientific literature to examine a suite of theoretical factors that have been proposed to explain higher life satisfaction. We find support for m... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 43 Số 1 - Trang 3-25 - 2011
Environmental Attitudes as Predictors of Policy Support across Three Countries Stephen Kellert’s typology of attitudes and Dunlap and Van Liere’s New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale represent two different approaches to environmental attitudes. Both approaches were used to predict policy support for environmental protection among college students in Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. Results showed country and gender differences in the stren... ...
Environment and Behavior - Tập 34 Số 6 - Trang 709-739 - 2002
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