Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41256093›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025

Exploring whether relationship mobility and goal congruence in travel groups enhance tourists' pro-environmental behaviors: new insights from social cognitive theory.

Junxi Gao, Weiwei Deng

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Junxi GaoSchool of Tourism and Culture Industry, Sichuan Tourism University, Chengdu, China.
Weiwei DengSchool of Tourism and Culture Industry, Sichuan Tourism University, Chengdu, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study addresses the research gap in group-level pro-environmental behaviors by establishing a social cognitive theoretical model within travel groups. Employing a quantitative design and structural equation modeling, it examines key antecedents, the mediating role of relationship mobility, and the moderating effect of Goal Congruence. Findings reveal that environmental emotion/values, impression management, and relationship mobility significantly promote low-cost pro-environmental behaviors, while only environmental emotion/values positively affects high-cost behaviors. Relationship mobility mediates the effects of environmental emotion/values and impression management on low-cost behaviors, and the effect of impression management on high-cost behaviors. Goal Congruence moderates the effects of environmental emotion/values and impression management on both low-cost and high-cost behaviors (except environmental emotion/values' direct effect on high-cost). While limited by its focus on travel groups and self-reported data, the research significantly advances understanding by shifting to the group level in tourism, empirically validating distinct pathways for different behavior costs, and highlighting relationship mobility and Goal Congruence's critical roles. It offers practical strategies for leveraging group dynamics.

Indexed as

goal congruencehigh-cost pro-environmental behaviorslow-cost pro-environmental behaviorsrelationship mobilitysocial cognitive theory

Identifiers

PMID41256093
PMCPMC12620262

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.