Trial reportJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence2025
Promoting adolescents' pro-environmental behavior: A motive-alignment approach.
Trial report in Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Promoting adolescents' pro-environmental behavior: A motive-alignment approach.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Trial
- Nature contact and adolescent paper-reuse behavior: place attachment versus climate anxiety in a two-wave study of Chinese adolescents.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Youth Perspectives on the Climate Crisis: Motivation and Action Pathways.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Using Motive-Alignment to Enhance Environmental Education for Youth: A Participatory Field Experiment.Developmental science · 2026Article
- The effect of an environment-based educational program on adolescents' pro-environmental behaviors and ecological footprint awareness: a quasi-experimental study.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Article
- What drives students' green intentions? A psychological approach.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Most adolescents are concerned about climate change. What helps them to act on their concerns? This preregistered randomized experiment tested whether adolescents' pro-environmental behavior can be promoted by framing the behavior as compatible with their autonomy motive. Dutch adolescents (N = 319, ages 12-17, 57.7% girls, predominantly indicating "Dutch" or "bicultural" identities) viewed a campaign-style video that explained the causes of climate change (all conditions), and additionally framed pro-environmental behavior as a personal choice (volition-alignment), opportunity to rebel (rebellion-alignment), or mandatory (misalignment). Rebellion-alignment increased pro-environmental behavior intentions and petitioning behavior; misalignment decreased pro-environmental donating behavior. Effect sizes were small to medium. These findings provide proof of concept that motive alignment can be effective in promoting adolescents' pro-environmental engagement.
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