Wesselmann Journal 2022

Question 1

In terms of study

What is environmental commitment?

Answer 1

how dependant someone is on the environment and the satisfaction they get from that commitment

Also a predictor of how invested they are in commitment

Question 2

What is main question authors are hoping to answer?

Answer 2

hope to support that environmental commitment is correlated with a pro-environmental world view.

also hope to support that priming environmental commitment will improve environmental relationships (by replicating Davis et al., 2009)

Question 3

How many participants and where from in study 1?

Answer 3

139 in final sample
recruited university students for course credit

Question 4

What was the IV in study 1?

Answer 4

Commitment conditions
(levels were low and high commitment condition)

Question 5

What were the DVs of study 1

Answer 5

1. commitment to environment and bases of commitment (self assessed environmental commitment)
2. rating on the general ecological scale

Question 6

Main results of study 1

Answer 6

people in high commitment condition reported having higher commitment, higher satisfaction and lower alternatives than those in low condition

also, condition type had no impact on behavioral investments

Question 7

Main difference between study 2 and 1

Answer 7

study 2 was conducted full online through MTURK

participants only completed environmental measure and ecological scale

Question 8

study 1 general methodology

Answer 8

participants were placed into either groups of low or high environmental commitment

they answered 5 questions priming them to be more or less committed to environment

then they completed dependent measures self assessing their environmental commitment (items were based on basis of commitment satisfaction, alternatives and investments)

study 2 followed same procedure BUT they only completed environmental measures and geological behavior scale