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Maartensson, Hanna; Loi, Natasha M. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Climate change is a global issue affecting individuals, industries, and economies around the world. Many individuals know the risks of climate change and are willing to change their behaviour, but still contribute to high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. This discrepancy between willingness and action has been described as the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Risk, Psychological Patterns, Conservation (Environment)
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Redondo, Ignacio; Puelles, María – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
What is going on with environmental education, which is currently unable to promote pro-environmental behaviors as effectively as it promotes pro-environmental attitudes? A tentative answer is that the environmental attitude-behavior gap observed in some individuals is just one manifestation of their lack of self-control for maintaining…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Self Control, Behavior Theories, Behavior Change
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Van den Branden, Sigrid; Van den Broucke, Stephan; Leroy, Roos; Declerck, Dominique; Hoppenbrouwers, Karel – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: This study aimed to test the predictive validity of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) when applied to the oral health-related behaviours of parents towards their preschool children in a cross-sectional and prospective design over a 5-year interval. Methods: Data for this study were obtained from parents of 1,057 children born…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Prediction, Parents, Health Behavior
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Lynne-Landsman, Sarah D.; Graber, Julia A.; Nichols, Tracy R.; Botvin, Gilbert J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
The theory of sensation seeking has conceptualized this construct as a stable personality trait associated with a variety of problem behaviors. Reckless behavior theory posits that increases in reckless behavior during adolescence can be attributed, in part, to increases in sensation seeking. This study evaluated patterns of stability and change…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Personality Traits, Delinquency, Adolescents