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Understanding environmental decision making: The association between stages of decision making and decisional
Letizia Richelli1, Eline L F M G Vissers2, Alessandra Gorini3,4
1University School for Advanced Studies IUSS, Pavia, Italy.
Introduction:
As research highlights how climate change impacts individual and planetary health, people might consider reducing their ecological footprint by acting pro-environmentally. However, their choice might depend on how far along they are in the process of deciding to act pro-environmentally (i.e., different stages of decision making) and on their experienced difficulty in deciding in favour of the environment and which behaviour to conduct (i.e., decisional conflict).
Methods:
To explore in which stage participants find themselves (i.e., not yet thinking about choices, showing interest in doing so, actively considering options, approaching a decision, having already decided but remaining open to reconsideration, or being firmly committed to a decision with little chance of change) and whether their respective stages are correlated with their experienced decisional conflict, an online, cross-sectional questionnaire was distributed among a convenience sample of 418 English-, Dutch-, and Italian-speaking adults to measure participants' demographics, stages, and extent to which they experience decisional conflict.
Results:
Based on regression analyses, we observed that participants who were further along in the stages experienced less decisional conflict.
Conclusion:
Therefore, we suggest that interventions (e.g., decision aids) take stages into account to better meet users' needs and assist people in making environmental decisions.
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