Some Psychological Aspects of Recycling: The Structure of Conservation Satisfactions
De Young, R. (1986). Some psychological aspects of recycling: The structure of conservation satisfactions. Environment and Behavior, 18, 4, 435-449.
Examined motivational aspects of conservation in an effort to learn how to encourage more people to recycle household solid waste materials. Data from 107 respondents to a mail-back questionnaire were subjected to dimensional analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results indicate that Ss derived a series of separate and distinct satisfactions from both recycling and reusing materials. The satisfactions were quite specific, involving, for example, frugality and participation. These findings suggest that the understanding of why people bother to conserve resources may be improved by investigating the personal satisfactions derived from conservation activities. (31 ref)
