Ahrari, Dominik (2023) Too abstract to care about the environment - unravelling the underestimation of biospheric group values. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Individuals’ perceptions of the extent to which fellow group members care about nature and the environment (i.e., perceived biospheric group values) predict their pro-environmental engagement. However, individuals structurally perceive their group members to endorse biospheric group values less strongly than group members on average self-report, which might demotivate pro-environmental action. Via an online questionnaire (N = 195), the thesis investigated if the perception of biospheric group values is lower, the larger and more remote a group is, (i.e., from residents of the neighbourhood over the city to the country), and if this is due to a higher abstractness, less interpersonal contact and ingroup identification. Moreover, it is tested whether the perception of biospheric group values of the investigated groups (i.e., neighbourhood, city and country) is related to policy support, energy-saving behaviours and pro-environmental behaviour. The results indicated that residents of the country are perceived to endorse biospheric values less strongly than residents of the city and neighbourhood. This pattern could not be explained by abstractness, interpersonal contact and ingroup identification. However, abstractness was negatively related to biospheric group values on the city and neighbourhood level, whereas interpersonal contact and ingroup identification was positively associated with biospheric group values on these levels. Moreover, only the perception of biospheric group values on the city level was associated with a higher degree of pro-environmental behaviour and no perception of biospheric group values was linked to climate policy support.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Bouman, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Environmental Psychology (EP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2023 11:29 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2023 11:29 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2728 |
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