It is a moral issue: The relationship between environmental self-identity, obligation-based intrinsic motivation and pro-environmental behaviour

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1258-1265

  Van der Werff, Ellen ^a   Steg, Linda ^a   Keizer, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental self identity; Intrinsic motivation; Obligation based intrinsic motivation; Personal norm; Pro environmental behaviour

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INCENTIVE; MORALITY;

EID: 84886720853     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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