Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors

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Autor(a) principal: Barreto, Mary L.
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Szóstek, Agnieszka, Karapanos, Evangelos, Nunes, Nuno J., Pereira, Lucas, Quintal, Filipe
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4021
Resumo: While interest in eco-feedback technologies has peaked over the last decade, research increasingly high lights that simply providing information to individuals regarding their consumption behaviors does not guarantee behavior change. This has lead to an increasing body of work that attempts to characterize individuals’ latent motivations that drive sustainable behaviors. With this paper we aim at expanding this body of work by analyzing such motivations in the context of families. We report findings from inter views with 15 families who used an eco-feedback interface over a period of 2 years. Our study reveals that motivations for sustainable behavior were not only rooted in individuals’ environmental concerns and need for expense management but they also regarded: (i) individuals’ and families’ need for a sense of control and security, (ii) parents’ self-perceived responsibility of their role as parents and (iii) the percep tion of individual as well as family identity. We argue that in order for eco-feedback technologies to attain long-lasting behavioral changes in the domestic environment they need to address basic family needs that go beyond individual ideals of pro-environmental behavior
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
title Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
spellingShingle Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
Barreto, Mary L.
Sustainability
Motivations
Behavior change
Family dynamics
Energy consumption
Eco-feedback
.
Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
title_short Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
title_full Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
title_fullStr Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
title_full_unstemmed Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
title_sort Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors
author Barreto, Mary L.
author_facet Barreto, Mary L.
Szóstek, Agnieszka
Karapanos, Evangelos
Nunes, Nuno J.
Pereira, Lucas
Quintal, Filipe
author_role author
author2 Szóstek, Agnieszka
Karapanos, Evangelos
Nunes, Nuno J.
Pereira, Lucas
Quintal, Filipe
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv DigitUMa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Barreto, Mary L.
Szóstek, Agnieszka
Karapanos, Evangelos
Nunes, Nuno J.
Pereira, Lucas
Quintal, Filipe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Sustainability
Motivations
Behavior change
Family dynamics
Energy consumption
Eco-feedback
.
Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
topic Sustainability
Motivations
Behavior change
Family dynamics
Energy consumption
Eco-feedback
.
Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
description While interest in eco-feedback technologies has peaked over the last decade, research increasingly high lights that simply providing information to individuals regarding their consumption behaviors does not guarantee behavior change. This has lead to an increasing body of work that attempts to characterize individuals’ latent motivations that drive sustainable behaviors. With this paper we aim at expanding this body of work by analyzing such motivations in the context of families. We report findings from inter views with 15 families who used an eco-feedback interface over a period of 2 years. Our study reveals that motivations for sustainable behavior were not only rooted in individuals’ environmental concerns and need for expense management but they also regarded: (i) individuals’ and families’ need for a sense of control and security, (ii) parents’ self-perceived responsibility of their role as parents and (iii) the percep tion of individual as well as family identity. We argue that in order for eco-feedback technologies to attain long-lasting behavioral changes in the domestic environment they need to address basic family needs that go beyond individual ideals of pro-environmental behavior
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