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Spillover effects in environmental behaviors, across time and context: a review and research agenda
Abstract
When implementing environmental education and interventions to promote one pro-environmental behavior, it is seldom asked if and how non-target pro-environmental behaviors are affected. The spillover effect proposes that engaging in one behavior affects the probability of engagement or disengaging in a second behavior. Therefore, the positive spillover effect predicts that interventions targeting one specific behavioral have the capacity to promote non-targeted and/or future pro-environmental behaviors. However, the negative spillover effect predicts that engaging in a first pro-environmental behavior will prevent or decrease a second pro-environmental behavior. Since the theoretical and empirical basis for positive and negative spillover effects are not sufficiently understood, the present paper (1) suggests a distinction between behavioral, temporal, and contextual spillovers (2) reviews the existing spillover research literature across a variety of environmental domains, (3) presents potential moderators governing the direction of spillover effects, and finally (4) discuss techniques to promote pro-environmental spillovers.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nilsson, A., Bergquist, M., & Schultz, W. P.
- Venue
- Environmental Education Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-11-02
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 573-589
- ISSN
- 1350-4622 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-5871
- OpenAlex
- W2547686578
- Cited by
- 365
- References
- 104
- FWCI
- 37.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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