in this research, we have investigated the relationship between psychological and social factors and green consumer behavior in tehran. with a sample size of 316, we have examined 15 hypotheses. the positive significant relationship between environmental attitudes, personal norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, and social (injunctive) norms with green consumer behavior dimensions (green purc...

With increasing urbanization in China, many cities are facing serious environmental problems due to continuous and substantial increase in automobile transportation. It is becoming imperative to examine effective ways to reduce individual automobile use to facilitate sustainable transportation behavior. Empirical, theory-based research on sustainable transportation in China is limited. In this ...

conclusions although older patients need more self-care and the quality of this self-care originates from their attitude toward cvd risk factors, their lack of awareness about the main risk factor of their condition is a major challenge for secondary prevention measures. in addition, younger patients’ significant emphasis on biological risk factors as uncorrectable factors can reduce their sens...

Neighborhood parks are important as spaces of residential neighborhoods where part of the daily interactions of residents take place. Hence, the study of environmental quality of the behavioral settings in which they are formed can be considered a suitable indicator to measure environmental quality with behavioral patterns. In order to intervene or adopt strategies in the design and planning of...

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 12 | December 2011 A 507 of the evidence, and unceasing regulatory and public vigilance about the influence of funding source on the science that informs environmental health policy. Subsequent to submitting this letter, the University of California, San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (T.W. and P.S.) received...

Epidemiologists and environmental health researchers have a joint responsibility to acquire scientific knowledge that matters to public health and to apply the knowledge gained in public health practice. We examine the nature and source of these social responsibilities, discuss a debate in the epidemiological literature on roles and responsibilities, and cite approaches to environmental justice...

The aim of the study is to examine intention engage in charity retailing using norm activation model which has been widely used predict people’s altruistic and pro-social behavior (De Groot Steg, 2009, 425–449). Pro-social refers a person’s action that intended help other people consists broad range helping, sharing, cooperating behaviors. Three forms engagement were taken into account: buying ...

Abstract Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you ) based 82 instances from a large corpus talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions turns using same depen...

in recent years, degradation of environment (water and soil resources) by farmers has increase concerns about sustainability of agriculture. farmers’ behaviors affect conservation of these resources and play important role in sustainability of agriculture as well. shiraz county, like other parts of the country, suffers for degradation of soil and water resources. the aim of this study was to pr...