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Identification As A Motivator Of Environmentally Responsible Tourist Behaviour, Steve Sertis Jan 1996

Identification As A Motivator Of Environmentally Responsible Tourist Behaviour, Steve Sertis

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This study examined the use of information in motivating environmentally responsible behaviour. In light of the ineffectiveness of traditional educational methods that have focussed upon affecting behaviour by changing attitudes through the manipulation of cognitive variables, an attempt was made to produce a sense of identification with the Rottnest Island Quokka using the tripartite model of motivational bases of attitudes developed by Hills (1993 ). This model used to determine whether different kinds of information would produce changes in environmental behaviour. Three groups of tourists were given either no information; factual information, consistent with current educational techniques used to influence …


Affective And Cognitive Bases Of Attitudes Toward Environmental Issues, Julie A. Pooley Jan 1996

Affective And Cognitive Bases Of Attitudes Toward Environmental Issues, Julie A. Pooley

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This present study seeks to determine the bases of our attitudes toward environmental issues. Is it what we think and believe (cognition) about the environment that determines our attitudes or is it what we feel (affect) that informs us. Previous literature indicates that in some areas affect may be a better predictor of attitudes than cognition. Furthermore the environmental education literature suggests that affect may be a key entry point for environmental education Using Zanna & Rempel's (1988) attitude structure model, the present study seeks to replicate and extend the work of Eagly, Mladinic and Otto (1994) using a free …