Climate change is a serious threat to the future ecological environment, and household behaviors contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Engaging young people in sustainable household...Show moreClimate change is a serious threat to the future ecological environment, and household behaviors contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Engaging young people in sustainable household behaviors is crucial to reduce their carbon footprints. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether young adults’ perceived need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence vary across different living situations (Deci & Ryan, 2000) and if these needs, in turn, promote their motivation to perform pro-environmental behavior (PEB). The hypothesis was that students living in peer co-residentials experience higher levels of these needs, leading to increased PEB. Methods: This observational and cross-sectional study was part of the Horizons research project. The participants included students (N = 214), aged 16 to 26. The Needs-satisfaction Scale (Sheldon et al., 2001) was used to measure perceived autonomy, relatedness and competence for PEB. A modified version of the Behavior-based Environmental Attitude Scale for adolescents (Kaiser et al., 2007) was used to assess PEB. Living situations were categorized as peer co-residentials, parental homes, and other households. One-way ANOVAs were performed to analyse the levels of the needs across the household types. A between-subject ANCOVA was performed to analyse the main effects of household, autonomy, relatedness and competence on PEB, including interaction effects. Results: No significant differences were found in the levels of perceived needs across the household types, p >. 05. Similarly, no main effects on PEB were identified, p >. 05. However, a significant interaction effect between perceived competence and household type on PEB was observed, F(3, 204) = 4.55, p < .001. Regression analysis revealed an interaction between perceived competence and PEB within in parental households, F(1, 74) = 4.39, p = .04, with competence having a significant and positive effect on PEB, b = .77, t(75) = 2.09, p < .001. Conclusion: Within parental homes, students who perceived more competence while performing PEB were more inclined to engage in PEB. Except for this effect, the findings revealed no significant differences in perceived needs or levels of PEB across household types. This study highlights that young adults’ perceived competence in parental homes plays a role in their environmental engagement. Future research may explore how parent-child relationships continue to shape young adult’s perceived needs after they move out. Understanding these dynamics can inform programs aimed at engaging young adults’ pro-environmental behavior, leading to reduced household carbon footprints over time.Show less
Environmental issues have been a popular topic in studies, including psychology where humans’ behavior in engaging in pro-environmental behavior is discussed. Self-efficacy, one's belief in their...Show moreEnvironmental issues have been a popular topic in studies, including psychology where humans’ behavior in engaging in pro-environmental behavior is discussed. Self-efficacy, one's belief in their capability to do something, in this case pro-environmental behavior, have been found to hold a role in higher engagement in recycling and willingness to do challenging environmental behavior. Proenvironmental behavior has close conceptual connection with prosocial actions as protecting the environment also means being considerate of others’ wellbeing on this Earth. In the current study, this prosociality is taken in the framework of social value orientation (SVO), individuals’ social preference in decision making, as a moderator to examine whether being prosocial affects the relation between self-efficacy and PEB. The hypotheses of this study are that self-efficacy is positively related to proenvironmental behavior and SVO moderated the relation between self-efficacy and pro-environmental behavior. Participants (n = 216) are a group of young adults from different nationalities with the age ranging from 17-29 years old. They participated in this study by completing questionnaires in a computer laboratory. As this study is a part of a bigger project, only three instruments are considered in this study, which are Perceived Response Efficacy to measure self-efficacy, Adolescents’ Environmental Behavior to measure PEB, and SVO slider. Responses from the measurements were analyzed with PROCESS macro program through SPSS ver. 29. The result yielded a main effect of selfefficacy on pro-environmental behavior indicated significant positive relation between self-efficacy and pro-environmental behavior. The result from the moderation analysis indicated a non-significant effect on traditional statistical threshold although could be considered as significant on trend level (p = 0.09), suggesting further investigation to confirm. Considering these results, this study provides deeper understanding on the role of self-efficacy on a broader operationalization of pro-environmental than only recycling and suggested potential moderating effect of SVO in the main effect.Show less
Several studies have revealed that parents play a crucial role in shaping their children’s early emotional development and regulation. However, research on emotion regulation in adolescents and how...Show moreSeveral studies have revealed that parents play a crucial role in shaping their children’s early emotional development and regulation. However, research on emotion regulation in adolescents and how peer victimization experiences affect it have been scarce on that field. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate if the effect of parent-child relationship quality on emotion regulation strategies was different in different levels of peer victimization exposure. A total of 87 students from two secondary Dutch schools, aged between 13-16 years old, participated in the study. Data about their peer victimization history, tendencies to regulate their emotions and the way they assessed their relationship with their primary caregivers were collected through self-report measures. The findings revealed that peer victimization effectively moderated the relationship between negative parent-child relationship quality and expressive suppression. Specifically, the effect of negative parent-child relationship quality on expressive suppression use was stronger for adolescents who experienced lower levels of peer victimization. A main effect of positive relationship quality on habitual use of cognitive reappraisal was also recognized. These results suggest that in general parent child relationship quality plays a significant role in the regulation of emotions in middle adolescence, whether peer victimization is involved or not. The limitations of the current study highlighted the need for further investigation with a longitudinal study design and heterogenous sample to examine how emotion regulation strategies and parent-child relationship are affected across the developmental period of adolescence and across different ethnicities.Show less
