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Responsible Environmental Behaviour: A Test Of The Hines Model, Karen Hayward
Responsible Environmental Behaviour: A Test Of The Hines Model, Karen Hayward
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
As the number and salience of environmental problems have increased so have the number of studies which investigate environmentally responsible behaviour. Hines (1984), after conducting a meta-analysis of this literature, identified crucial variables which predict responsible environmental behaviour. While Hines has proposed a crude model which contains the variables thought to explain this type of behaviour, she has failed to hypothesize about the relationships that exist amongst many of these variables. The present study, therefore, was designed to develop a more elaborate model which attempts to explain some of these relationships, as well as predict responsible environmental behaviour. The sample …