Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour
An individual’s relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual’s gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by...
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| description | An individual’s relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual’s gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time-orientation. In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmental behaviour. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d23587483f974de896503cafa41710672023-08-09T15:18:30ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262022-01-01171010402610.1088/1748-9326/ac9296Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviourChristin Hoffmann0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-1044Julia Amelie Hoppe1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-4065Niklas Ziemann2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-115XChair of Decarbonisation and Transformation of Industry, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg , Erich-Weinert-Str. 1, Cottbus 03046, GermanyOrganizational Behavior, University of Paderborn , Warburger Straße 100, Paderborn 33098, GermanyChair of Economics, especially Markets, Competition and Institutions, University of Potsdam , August-Bebel-Straße 89, Potsdam 14482, GermanyAn individual’s relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual’s gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time-orientation. In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmental behaviour.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9296gender differencesincentivised choicespro-environmental behaviourtime perspectives |
| spellingShingle | Christin Hoffmann Julia Amelie Hoppe Niklas Ziemann Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour Environmental Research Letters gender differences incentivised choices pro-environmental behaviour time perspectives |
| title | Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
| title_full | Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
| title_fullStr | Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
| title_short | Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour |
| title_sort | who has the future in mind gender time perspectives and pro environmental behaviour |
| topic | gender differences incentivised choices pro-environmental behaviour time perspectives |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9296 |
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