Exploring the Warm Glow and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: the role of positive emotions inoculation, environmental self-efficacy and environmental locus of control

Diplôme Master Exploring the Warm Glow and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: the role of positive emotions inoculation, environmental self-efficacy and environmental locus of control eng 2025-01-29 2025-01-06 author Charrière Loris 955922 Section de psychologie (PSICO) director Spampatti Tobia 0000-0003-0714-6494 935944 director Brosch Tobias 0000-0001-6883-0383 637221 Section de psychologie (PSICO) Individual behaviors have a major impact on the current climatic issue. To avoid disastrous future consequences, enhancing individual pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) is essential. To reach this objective, research in environmental psychology identified the Warm Glow (WG), environmental self-efficacy and environmental locus of control as psychological determinants of PEB. This study aimed to increase the WG and PEB using positive emotions inoculation. Participants were assigned to a positive emotions inoculation or a control group before completing a pro-environmental behavioral task named the WEPT. Additionally, environmental self-efficacy and locus of control were assessed to examine their influence on PEB. Our results suggested no evidence supporting an effect of our inoculation manipulation on enhancing both WG and PEB. Nonetheless, our results indicated that the environmental locus of control significantly predicted the PEB, whereas environmental self-efficacy did not. These findings emphasize the need for further research exploring alternative behavioral techniques to activate the WG and therefore increase PEB. Warm glow Pro-environmental behaviors Comportements pro-environnementaux Locus of control Inoculation Self-efficacy Dewey 150 Maitrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 8b3b40e3-74e0-479d-9565-5271df9eaacb Master thesis Public CHARRIERE_Loris_Mémoire_01-2025.pdf 1306717 application/pdf cfa659cde0ce346d8784fb72f989e6f91b2ed0c53023792908c5144c67a882af openAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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