Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Psychology in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, a taxonomy of personal and moral norms is proposed, distinguishing between two types of personal norms: introjected and integrated norms, and four environmentally responsible behaviours: buying organic milk, buying energy saving light bulbs, source-separating compostable kitchen waste, and using public transportation for work and shopping.

TL;DR: This article investigated the need for psychological restoration as a within-individual determinant of the common preference differential between natural and urban environments and found that more fatigued participants reported more favorable attitudes toward a walk in a forest than a walking in a city center.

TL;DR: Acceptability of travel demand management measures: The importance of problem awareness, personal norm, freedom, and fairness as mentioned in this paper, and the importance of the personal norm and fairness in travel.

TL;DR: An empirical study with human subjects in a complex multi-level building and compared thinking aloud protocols and performance measures of experienced and inexperienced participants in different wayfinding tasks showed that the floor strategy was preferred by experienced participants over the other strategies and was overall tied to better wayfinding performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated relations between environmental concern, attitude toward frugality, perceived ease of behavior, and stated intentions to engage in four different types of pro-environmental behavior, i.e., reductions in electricity and gas use, garbage, and automobile use.

TL;DR: In this article, a model that aims at explaining individual pro-environmental behavior: environmental stressors mediated via appraisal processes (demand appraisal, self-efficacy), activate problem-focused coping.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between time perspective (TP), values and environmental attitudes in a sample of 247 undergraduate students based on an expanded social dilemma framework and found that environmental preservation was positively correlated with future, biospheric, and altruistic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the importance of immersion in a mediated environment in relation to restoration and found that more immersive projection would show stronger stress-reducing effects of a mediated restorative environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared two different scales used in previous research to measure beliefs about adverse consequences (ACs), or concerns, for egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric-valued objects.

TL;DR: The incidental acquisition of spatial orientation knowledge when using a pedestrian navigation assistance system for wayfinding was compared to incidental learning during map-based wayfinding, finding that the spatial orientationknowledge of navigation assistance users is poor.

TL;DR: To decrease car usage and increase children's independent travel to leisure activities, planners and policy-makers should focus on improvements in the traffic environment and promote a favourable attitude towards independent travel.

TL;DR: Results from the in-depth study showed that children had better perceived sleep quality and fewer awakenings than parents, although sleep assessed by wrist-actigraphy indicated a better sleep for parents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on identifying the differences between traditional farmers and pro-environmental farmers in terms of environment-related beliefs and representations, and find out if farmers' commitment to proenvironmental steps is related to their increased environmental awareness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the perceptions of rural Muslim communities regarding alternative sanitation systems, and found that women and men's focus groups in Machaki village in the district of Karak, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), were interviewed.

TL;DR: Developing perceived hospital environment quality indicators for rating hospital settings supported hypotheses that patients and visitors would rate humanized environments more positively, although staff members seemed to be less sensitive than service users to differences in design quality.

TL;DR: In this article, four conceptual domains of subjective housing were introduced, based on the assumption that each of the domains brings a unique perspective to the understanding of perceived housing: housing satisfaction, usability in the home, meaning of home and housing-related control beliefs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an interview with 91 children living in a large high-rise, high-density planned neighborhood of 5277 families and found that children find most of their psychologically valued settings within the neighborhood outdoor spaces such as designated play areas and developed parks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was carried out on a sample of residents of three Italian cities (N= 1031) to explore the relationship between the images of the community of residence and sense of community.

TL;DR: In this paper, a public survey explored the social acceptability of 19 forest treatments that varied by forest age, level of green-tree retention, pattern of retention, and level of down wood.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural equation models incorporating both direct and indirect pathways have been estimated using data from six socio-acoustic surveys combining individual noise exposure measures with questions on noise perception and background characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered how concerns for personal safety varied as respondents viewed two sequences of slides depicting walks down two dangerous urban alleys and provided their own ratings of Nasar/Fisher features.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the question of the nature of place and how orderliness arises in places and propose a resolution to this problem by drawing upon a strand of phenomenology which has not usually been foregrounded in psychology, the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of nocturnal aircraft noise on annoyance ratings were investigated in the laboratory setting and in the field using questionnaires with 128 subjects of a laboratory study performed at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine.

TL;DR: This article found that those higher in family centrality, affiliation motivation, attending religious services and wanting a job with more time for family were more likely to want to stay in the Pittsburgh area.

TL;DR: This research sought to determine whether adding salient spatial cues to standard auditory RGS instructions could facilitate route memory, and supplementing the standard RGS with landmark or cardinal heading information did not appear to excessively increase instruction complexity.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of this procedure was demonstrated by applying it to odor annoyance from environmental pollution at three sites in communities with steel industry (Study 1) and bio-fuel processing (Study 2).