Developing interventions to change recycling behaviors: A case study of applying behavioral science
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The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW) are frameworks that can be used to develop recycling interventions. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the utility of these frameworks for developing recycling interventions. 20 semistructured interviews with university building users were analyzed using the TDF and BCW. Environmental context and resources, beliefs about consequences, knowledge, and intention were identified as the key theoretical domains influencing recycling behaviors. The BCW was used to develop recommendations for intervention. This research is the first case study to demonstrate how the TDF and the BCW can be used to develop recycling interventions.
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The TDF has also been used beyond health, for example, to behaviours related to recycling.
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- Gainforth, H. L., Sheals, K., Atkins, L., Jackson, R., & Michie, S.
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- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University College London (GB)
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- Gainforth, Heather L.
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- Applied Environmental Education & Communication
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- Informa UK Limited
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- 2016-10
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- 15
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- 4
- Pages
- 325-339
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- 1533-015X (ISSN-L)
- 1533-0389
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- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Applied Environmental Education & Communication (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University College London
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Keywords
- recycling behavior, behaviour change interventions, Theoretical Domains Framework, Behaviour Change Wheel, university buildings, environmental context and resources, beliefs about consequences, knowledge, intention
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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