Can reflective diary-writing increase sufficiency-oriented consumption? A longitudinal intervention addressing the role of basic psychological needs, subjective well-being, and time affluence
Tröger, Josephine ; Wullenkord, Marlis C. LU
; Barthels, Clara
and Steller, Rubina
(2021)
In Sustainability (Switzerland)
13(9).
- Abstract
Sufficiency is a sustainability strategy aiming for (1) a decrease in absolute resource consumption on individual and societal levels, and (2) for socio-ecological justice and the fair distribution of costs and benefits of resource use to meet every human’s basic needs. This study examined a longitudinal intervention to foster individual sufficiency orientation (i.e., a multidimensional con-struct including both attitudes towards the sufficiency sustainability strategy and corresponding behavioral intentions). We recruited N = 252 participants who participated in a one-week reflective diary-intervention to increase sufficiency orientation in everyday life and assessed sufficiency orien-tation, basic psychological need satisfaction,... (More)
Sufficiency is a sustainability strategy aiming for (1) a decrease in absolute resource consumption on individual and societal levels, and (2) for socio-ecological justice and the fair distribution of costs and benefits of resource use to meet every human’s basic needs. This study examined a longitudinal intervention to foster individual sufficiency orientation (i.e., a multidimensional con-struct including both attitudes towards the sufficiency sustainability strategy and corresponding behavioral intentions). We recruited N = 252 participants who participated in a one-week reflective diary-intervention to increase sufficiency orientation in everyday life and assessed sufficiency orien-tation, basic psychological need satisfaction, self-reflection, subjective well-being, and time affluence before (T1), directly after (T2), and four weeks after the intervention (T3). Contrary to our predictions, there was no significant difference between the experimental and the control group. Sufficiency orientation increased across groups. Basic psychological need satisfaction was the strongest predictor of sufficiency orientation. There were positive relations with subjective well-being. Targeting basic psychological need satisfaction, as a potential underlying driver of sufficiency orientation, seems to be a promising avenue for designing interventions. Employing a need-based, humanistic approach to designing psychological interventions is in line with the aims of sufficiency to meet every human’s basic needs, in a socio-ecologically just world.
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- author
- Tröger, Josephine
; Wullenkord, Marlis C.
LU
; Barthels, Clara
and Steller, Rubina
- publishing date
- 2021-05-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Behavioral intentions, Consumer behavior, Diary method, Environmental psychology, Intervention, Pro-environmental behavior, Psychological needs, Reflective writing, Self-reflection, Sufficiency orientation
- in
- Sustainability (Switzerland)
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 9
- article number
- 4885
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85105641870
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- DOI
- 10.3390/su13094885
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- id
- 0680440a-0a82-4c44-a245-8dea69bfe3cf
- date added to LUP
- 2022-02-28 19:34:19
- date last changed
- 2022-04-24 00:08:50
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