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Envy and Environmental Decision Making: The Mediating Role of Self-Control
1Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
|January 21, 2022
Summary
Envy influences environmental decisions. Benign envy promotes pro-environmental behavior, while malicious envy leads to environmentally harmful actions, mediated by self-control for malicious envy.
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Environmental Psychology
- Behavioral Economics
Background:
- Emotions significantly impact decision-making processes.
- Limited research exists on the link between social emotions and environmental choices.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the influence of envy (state and trait) on environmental actions.
- To explore the mediating role of self-control in the envy-environment decision relationship.
Main Methods:
- Experimental manipulation to induce benign and malicious envy states.
- Cross-sectional correlational study to assess personality traits and behaviors.
- Examination of self-control as a potential mediator.
Main Results:
- Benign envy was found to be an antecedent of pro-environmental behavior.
- Malicious envy was associated with environmentally harmful actions.
- Dispositional benign envy predicted pro-environmental behavior.
- Trait self-control mediated the relationship between dispositional malicious envy and environmental behavior.
Conclusions:
- Social interpersonal emotions, specifically envy, play a crucial role in environmental decision-making.
- Understanding the psychological mechanisms, like self-control, is key to promoting sustainable behaviors.
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