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      Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

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          Study 1 examined how personality and attitudes are related to daily pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and whether these relationships are moderated by perceived behavioral costs and benefits. One hundred and seventy-eight participants responded to scales measuring the dark and light side of personality, as well as their pro-environmental attitude. Afterward, they were notified three times a day for 7 days in a row. Each time they reported their PEB that had occurred in the past four hours and indicated their behavioral costs and benefits. Multilevel analyses showed a positive relationship between the frequency of PEB and the light triad of personality and pro-environmental attitude, while the dark tetrad was negatively related to PEB. Unexpectedly, less environmentally aware participants reported to engage in PEB with higher costs and lower benefits than did pro-environmental participants. A second study ( N = 159) suggests that less environmentally aware people do not actually engage in PEB with high costs and low benefits, but rather that they only perceive their behavior to be costly and of little benefit. Overall, our findings suggest that the way people perceive their daily PEB is not necessarily shared by others.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                14 April 2022
                2022
                : 13
                : 883704
                Affiliations
                Institute for Psychology, University of Innsbruck , Innsbruck, Austria
                Author notes

                Edited by: César O. Tapia-Fonllem, University of Sonora, Mexico

                Reviewed by: Ricardo Ernesto Pérez Ibarra, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (ITSON), Mexico; Pedro José Ramos-Villagrasa, University of Zaragoza, Spain

                *Correspondence: Jana Sophie Kesenheimer, jana.kesenheimer@ 123456uibk.ac.at

                This article was submitted to Environmental Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883704
                9046585
                652dad88-02fa-4b3b-afb9-4ebc9fe92e8e
                Copyright © 2022 Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 25 February 2022
                : 23 March 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 3, Equations: 0, References: 54, Pages: 14, Words: 10376
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                pro-environmental behavior,costs and benefits estimates,dark tetrad,light triad,personality and behavior

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