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dc.contributor.authorFarrelly, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorBhogal, Manpal Singh
dc.contributor.authorBadham, Lee
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-26T11:02:44Z
dc.date.available2024-09-26T11:02:44Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-25
dc.identifier.citationFarrelly, D., Bhogal, M.S. and Badham, L. (2024) The email conservation task: testing the validity of an online measure of direct pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 99, Article number 102442en
dc.identifier.issn0272-4944en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102442en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/625713
dc.description© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102442en
dc.description.abstractThere is a need for valid measures of pro-environmental behavior, in particular ones measuring actual behavior. In response, a number of such measures have been introduced recently, however each faces limitations such as high costs, practical use and/or only measure indirect environmental behavior, limiting their scope, accessibility and inclusivity. In response, this study introduces the easily administered and low-cost Email Conservation Task (ECT), which measures direct pro-environmental behaviour (in this case, email use). Here, participants chose between personal costs (time spent on trivial tasks) or environmental costs (receiving unnecessary emails leading to CO2 emissions) across multiple trials. In a pre-registered study testing the validity of the ECT, it was found (as hypothesized) that participants scored higher on the ECT (incurred more personal costs rather than receiving unnecessary emails) when personal costs to them were lower, and scored higher when the environmental costs of receiving unnecessary emails were higher. Finally, total scores on the ECT significantly correlated with scores on three self-reported indicators of pro-environmentalism. Overall, the results of this study support all three hypotheses, indicating that the ECT is a valid measure of pro-environmental behavior that can be implemented across a diverse range of research areasen
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dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102442en
dc.subjectpro-environmental behaviouren
dc.subjectbehavioural measuresen
dc.subjectemail useen
dc.subjectonlineen
dc.titleThe email conservation task: testing the validity of an online measure of direct pro-environmental behavioren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Environmental Psychologyen
dc.date.updated2024-09-26T10:25:23Z
dc.identifier.articlenumber102442
dc.date.accepted2024-09-24
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW26092024MBen
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2024-09-26en
dc.source.volume99
dc.source.issueNovember 2024
dc.source.beginpage1
dc.source.endpage8
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