School of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
School of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Mar 10;811:151436. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151436. Epub 2021 Nov 4.
As a profound crisis capable of threatening human well-being as well as existence, the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered as an awakening experience which may lead to the promotion of environmentally responsible behaviors in the society. In the present research, an extended form of the Theory of Planned Behavior has been applied to examine the moderating effect of COVID-19 pandemic on pro-environmental behavior mechanism in Iran. To evaluate this effect, a 5-scale Likert questionnaire was designed comprising of 28 questions in 7 sections of information and concerns about COVID-19, environmental knowledge, subjective norm, attitude, intention, perceived behavioral control and pro-environmental behavior. According to the results, the pandemic has led to an increase in people's knowledge about their environment and has positively affected individuals' subjective norms, or the perceived social pressure to get involved in environmentally friendly actions. Individuals' attitude to perform pro-environmental behaviors has also increased as a result of this incident. Moreover, the role of perceived behavioral control over environmental actions has been influenced by the pandemic situation and the COVID-19 crisis has positively influenced the relationship between intention and pro-environmental behavior.
作为一种能够威胁人类福祉和生存的深刻危机，新冠疫情可以被视为一种觉醒体验，可能会促使社会中出现更多对环境负责的行为。在本研究中，应用了计划行为理论的扩展形式来检验新冠疫情对伊朗环保行为机制的调节作用。为了评估这种影响，设计了一个 5 级李克特量表问卷，包含 28 个问题，分为 7 个部分，分别是关于新冠疫情、环境知识、主观规范、态度、意向、感知行为控制和环保行为的信息和关注点。结果表明，疫情提高了人们对环境的了解，积极影响了个人的主观规范，即参与环保行动的感知社会压力。个人对实施环保行为的态度也因此有所提高。此外，感知行为控制对环境行为的作用受到疫情状况的影响，新冠危机积极影响了意图与环保行为之间的关系。
