Department of Environmental Studies, Sustainability, and Geography, Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435, USA.
Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 1;19(13):8085. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19138085.
This study reports attitudes, beliefs, and littering behaviors of 7532 college-aged cigarette smokers from across the United States. Four behavioral variables were measured: littering of last cigarette butt, number of butts littered in past 24 h, littering in past month, and ever having littered. Questions about beliefs centered on whether cigarette butts are biodegradable, if butts were harmful to the environment, and if butts are considered to be litter. One attitudinal question focused on whether seeing butts on the ground was bothersome. Littering was most likely among people who believed butts were biodegradable, believed they are not harmful to the environment, do not believe butts are litter, and among those with the attitude that littered butts are not bothersome. Logistic regression analyses found that the strongest influence on littering behavior was the attitude that seeing butts was bothersome. The second-strongest driver was the belief that butts are litter.
本研究报告了来自美国各地的 7532 名成年烟民的态度、信念和乱扔垃圾行为。测量了四个行为变量：乱扔最后一支香烟的烟头、过去 24 小时内乱扔的烟头数量、过去一个月内乱扔烟头的情况以及是否曾经乱扔过烟头。关于信念的问题集中在烟头是否可生物降解、烟头是否对环境有害以及烟头是否被视为垃圾。一个态度问题集中在看到地上的烟头是否令人烦恼。最有可能乱扔烟头的人是那些认为烟头可生物降解、认为烟头对环境无害、不认为烟头是垃圾以及认为乱扔烟头不令人烦恼的人。逻辑回归分析发现，对乱扔垃圾行为影响最大的是看到烟头感到烦恼的态度。第二大驱动力是认为烟头是垃圾的信念。
