Green lifestyles and subjective well-being: More about self-image than actual behavior?

被引：125

作者：

Binder, Martin ^{[1
,2
]}

Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Bard Coll Berlin, Platanenstr 24, D-13156 Berlin, Germany

[2] Bard Coll, Levy Econ Inst, Annandale On Hudson, NY 12504 USA

[3] Univ Goettingen, Fac Econ Sci, Pl Goettinger Sieben 3, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2017年 / 137卷

基金：

中国博士后科学基金; 中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Sustainability; Green lifestyle; Environmentally-friendly behavior; Subjective well-being; UKHLS; PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION; HAPPINESS; MATERIALISM; MINDFULNESS; VALUES; HAPPY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jebo.2017.03.009

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Does environmentally-friendly behavior necessarily imply sacrifice? In the metric of subjective well-being, research has shown that green behavior and sustainable consumption are positively related to life satisfaction. We extend this research analyzing UKHLS household panel data for Great Britain, showing that this boost in life satisfaction is mostly due to self-image (i.e. one's own assessment of how environmentally-friendly one's behavior is) but not due to concrete pro-environmental behaviors such as conserving water, recycling and so on. We further show that green self-image increases the extent and intensity of green behavior yet even the greenest (self-identified) individuals do not consistently exhibit all pro-environmental behaviors. By this, our data can be used to assess the varying extent of a value-action gap for different pro-environmental behaviors for our sample. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：304 / 323

页数：20

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