Predicting Participation in Community Environment Actions from an Integrated Environmental Behavior Model

Results found that gender and education had significant effects upon psychological variables such as response efficacy. Three variables—self-efficacy, response efficacy and environmental hope—could predict residents’ intention to join community environmental actions.

Moreover, self-efficacy and response efficacy were able to differentiate high-participation residents from low-participation ones. Based on these results and findings from interviews with community leaders, we offered several suggestions for promoting public participations in community environmental actions.