Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of soci... more Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of social deviance Executive functions, attention & juvenile delinquency A study of personality traits in undergraduates: alexythymial & its relationship to the psychological deviate Self-control, self-regulation, & juvenile delinquency Child maltreatment, self-regulation, & parenting Environmental factors in housing habitability as determinants of family violence The role of family communication & school adjustment in adolescents' violent behavior Violent offenders: a qualitative study of murderous violence in Venezuela Environmental & personal variables predicting school bullying: a study of Mexican adolescents Violence in prison: institutional constraints & inmates aggressiveness Media effects on antisocial behavior in children & adolescents Witnesses to bullying: voices for prevention & intervention in schools Methods in Psychology & Law & Criminology Research: The assessment of interventions for prevention of crime The impact of PPS-VCJ on attitudes & behavior of juveniles placed in centers as a result of judicial measures Juvenile offenders recidivism in Spain. A quantitative revision Index.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and ... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and anti-environmental behaviour to see whether it bears any relation to a person’s own pro-environmental behaviours. Two studies were conducted using an Expectation of Others’ Environmental Behaviour scale. The samples comprised Mexican respondents living in Mexico City and its conurbation with average ages of 35.19 and 35.05. Both studies showed that participants believe others are unlikely to act in a pro-environmental way but are instead likely to engage in anti-environmental behaviour. Both expectations (pro- and anti-environmental behaviour) had a positive effect on the participants’ own pro-environmental behaviour. The results are discussed from the perspective of social dilemmas, as well as the possibility of a uniqueness bias.
This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychol... more This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychological perspective. Responses of 460 Mexicans to a research instrument were analyzed. This model specified that a K-Factor, indicating a slow life-history strategy, positively influenced a second-order factor (positive time perspective) composed of positive past and future orientations. This, in turn, affected Sustainable Behavior, a higher-order factor indicated by proecological, frugal, altruistic and equitable actions. A three-phase strategy was implemented for the data analysis: obtaining construct validity and reliability indicators of the used measures, conducting invariance tests of constructs by sex and city of location, and testing a structural model of relations between the studied factors. The results support the plausibility of the hypothesized relationships. These results indicate that evolutionary tendencies may play an indirect role in the promotion of Sustainable Behaviors.
Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation... more Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation, estimating its relationships with measures of gratitude, eudaimonia, costs as environmental conservation requirements and water scarcity/shortage. Responses were analysed from a purposive sample of 107 participants, mainly university students from Hermosillo, Mexico. Univariate statistics were obtained along with the internal consistency of the measures in order to test the model, which adequately fit the data and explained 11% of variance in water conservation. Eudaimonia had a positive and direct effect on this behaviour, with no other direct effects found. Furthermore, eudaimonia was significantly affected by gratitude and water scarcity/shortage. Costs as requirements of environmental conservation were not associated with the rest of the variables. These results suggest that eudaimonia operates as a promoter of water conservation.
Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on eart... more Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on earth, and this chapter addresses the topic of its conservation. Environmental psychology (EP) investigates the dispositional and contextual factors that incite both water waste/contamination and conservation. It also studies the psychological positive consequences that result from engaging in water conservationist practices. The obtained information has let us know the individual characteristics that promote water conservation behaviors, the extrinsic and intrinsic consequences that maintain those behaviors, and the situations that make people use water in a sustainable way. EP also participates in the design of interventional strategies aimed at the instauration of conservationist uses of freshwater, including water conservation campaigns, environmental education programs, and experiments intended to shift wasteful and contaminating water uses toward more sustainable water-consuming behaviors. A model integrating the knowledge on freshwater conservation determinants and its consequences is presented and future directions for research and interventions are outlined.
Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology... more Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology and positive psychology, by studying the way in which psychological positivity is attained through exposure to certain environmental conditions. It also investigates how psychological positivity is capable of stimulating care and conservation of the socio-physical environment. The papers included in this issue look at theoretical models of environmental positivity in the family, the positive effects of contact with nature on children, the relationship between psychological wellbeing and a frugal use of natural resources, the positive communication of issues related with global climate change, the factors of psychological positivity contained in a positive job environment, and the effects of preference for trees on human wellbeing. The contents reflect relationships of interdependency between environmental and psychological positivity, which become a hugely interesting research issue for studies in human behaviour.
Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of soci... more Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of social deviance Executive functions, attention & juvenile delinquency A study of personality traits in undergraduates: alexythymial & its relationship to the psychological deviate Self-control, self-regulation, & juvenile delinquency Child maltreatment, self-regulation, & parenting Environmental factors in housing habitability as determinants of family violence The role of family communication & school adjustment in adolescents' violent behavior Violent offenders: a qualitative study of murderous violence in Venezuela Environmental & personal variables predicting school bullying: a study of Mexican adolescents Violence in prison: institutional constraints & inmates aggressiveness Media effects on antisocial behavior in children & adolescents Witnesses to bullying: voices for prevention & intervention in schools Methods in Psychology & Law & Criminology Research: The assessment of interventions for prevention of crime The impact of PPS-VCJ on attitudes & behavior of juveniles placed in centers as a result of judicial measures Juvenile offenders recidivism in Spain. A quantitative revision Index.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and ... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and anti-environmental behaviour to see whether it bears any relation to a person’s own pro-environmental behaviours. Two studies were conducted using an Expectation of Others’ Environmental Behaviour scale. The samples comprised Mexican respondents living in Mexico City and its conurbation with average ages of 35.19 and 35.05. Both studies showed that participants believe others are unlikely to act in a pro-environmental way but are instead likely to engage in anti-environmental behaviour. Both expectations (pro- and anti-environmental behaviour) had a positive effect on the participants’ own pro-environmental behaviour. The results are discussed from the perspective of social dilemmas, as well as the possibility of a uniqueness bias.
This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychol... more This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychological perspective. Responses of 460 Mexicans to a research instrument were analyzed. This model specified that a K-Factor, indicating a slow life-history strategy, positively influenced a second-order factor (positive time perspective) composed of positive past and future orientations. This, in turn, affected Sustainable Behavior, a higher-order factor indicated by proecological, frugal, altruistic and equitable actions. A three-phase strategy was implemented for the data analysis: obtaining construct validity and reliability indicators of the used measures, conducting invariance tests of constructs by sex and city of location, and testing a structural model of relations between the studied factors. The results support the plausibility of the hypothesized relationships. These results indicate that evolutionary tendencies may play an indirect role in the promotion of Sustainable Behaviors.
Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation... more Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation, estimating its relationships with measures of gratitude, eudaimonia, costs as environmental conservation requirements and water scarcity/shortage. Responses were analysed from a purposive sample of 107 participants, mainly university students from Hermosillo, Mexico. Univariate statistics were obtained along with the internal consistency of the measures in order to test the model, which adequately fit the data and explained 11% of variance in water conservation. Eudaimonia had a positive and direct effect on this behaviour, with no other direct effects found. Furthermore, eudaimonia was significantly affected by gratitude and water scarcity/shortage. Costs as requirements of environmental conservation were not associated with the rest of the variables. These results suggest that eudaimonia operates as a promoter of water conservation.
Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on eart... more Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on earth, and this chapter addresses the topic of its conservation. Environmental psychology (EP) investigates the dispositional and contextual factors that incite both water waste/contamination and conservation. It also studies the psychological positive consequences that result from engaging in water conservationist practices. The obtained information has let us know the individual characteristics that promote water conservation behaviors, the extrinsic and intrinsic consequences that maintain those behaviors, and the situations that make people use water in a sustainable way. EP also participates in the design of interventional strategies aimed at the instauration of conservationist uses of freshwater, including water conservation campaigns, environmental education programs, and experiments intended to shift wasteful and contaminating water uses toward more sustainable water-consuming behaviors. A model integrating the knowledge on freshwater conservation determinants and its consequences is presented and future directions for research and interventions are outlined.
Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology... more Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology and positive psychology, by studying the way in which psychological positivity is attained through exposure to certain environmental conditions. It also investigates how psychological positivity is capable of stimulating care and conservation of the socio-physical environment. The papers included in this issue look at theoretical models of environmental positivity in the family, the positive effects of contact with nature on children, the relationship between psychological wellbeing and a frugal use of natural resources, the positive communication of issues related with global climate change, the factors of psychological positivity contained in a positive job environment, and the effects of preference for trees on human wellbeing. The contents reflect relationships of interdependency between environmental and psychological positivity, which become a hugely interesting research issue for studies in human behaviour.
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