Pride and guilt as place-based affective antecedents to pro-environmental behavior

ABSTRACT: The interrelated concepts of place attachment and place meaning are antecedents to pro-environmental behavior and essential for supporting decisions that foster relationships between people and places. Previous research has argued that affect is instrumental in conceptualizing place-related phenomena but has not yet been considered in terms of discrete emotions. We disentangled the empirical relationships between concepts of place and the emotions of pride and guilt to understand how they collectively contributed to individuals’ decisions about environmental sustainability. Specifically, we conducted an online survey of residents living in the Midwestern US and asked questions about their attachments to places and their place-related behavior. We then tested a latent variable path model wi

SUBMITTER: Shipley N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9892858 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature