TY - JOUR
T1 - Pro-environmental behavior in families
T2 - A reverse socialization perspective
AU - Singh, Pallavi
AU - Sahadev, Sunil
AU - Oates, Caroline J.
AU - Alevizou, Panayiota
PY - 2020/5/7
Y1 - 2020/5/7
N2 - The importance of adolescents’ influence on family pro-environmental behavior is attracting significant research attention. Drawing from the socialization perspective, the impact of adolescents’ environmental concern and environmental knowledge on parental pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour is investigated. The mediating impact of parental attitude towards an adolescent’s influence and parental belief in the environmental knowledge of the adolescent is also explored. The study also looks at the moderating role of two different adolescent influence strategies. The conceptual model is validated using data collected from 352 parent-adolescent dyads in India. Results show that adolescents’ environmental objective knowledge does not have any impact on parental pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour while environmental concern is a key factor. Overall, parents as learners do not simply play a passive role in the environmental reverse socialization process, challenging the traditional understanding of reverse socialization theory.
AB - The importance of adolescents’ influence on family pro-environmental behavior is attracting significant research attention. Drawing from the socialization perspective, the impact of adolescents’ environmental concern and environmental knowledge on parental pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour is investigated. The mediating impact of parental attitude towards an adolescent’s influence and parental belief in the environmental knowledge of the adolescent is also explored. The study also looks at the moderating role of two different adolescent influence strategies. The conceptual model is validated using data collected from 352 parent-adolescent dyads in India. Results show that adolescents’ environmental objective knowledge does not have any impact on parental pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour while environmental concern is a key factor. Overall, parents as learners do not simply play a passive role in the environmental reverse socialization process, challenging the traditional understanding of reverse socialization theory.
KW - Adolescent environmental concern
KW - Adolescent influence strategies
KW - Pro-environmental behavior
KW - Reverse socialization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089371817&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.04.047
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.04.047
M3 - Article
VL - 115
SP - 110
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
SN - 0148-2963
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