The Role of Identity, Environmental Attitudes and Green Psychological climate in Creating Environmental Citizenship Behavior

Damghanian, Hossein; Keshavarz, Mohammad; Ebrahimi, Seyed Abbas; Rastgar, Abbasali

The Role of Identity, Environmental Attitudes and Green Psychological climate in Creating Environmental Citizenship Behavior

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

hossein damghanian ¹

mohammad keshavarz ²

seyed abbas ebrahimi ³

abbasali rastgar ⁴

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

² PhD Student in Organizational Behavior Management, Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

⁴ Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between environmental identity, environmental attitudes, and the green psychological climate in creating environmental citizenship behavior. This study was applied in a descriptive and surveyed manner. The population of the study included 212 employees of Shiraz municipality who were selected through available sampling method. Partial least squares method and Smart PLS2 software were used for data analysis. Convergent validity was used to assess the validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to fit the reliability and its coefficient was greater than 0.7 for all research constructs. The findings show that environmental identity and environmental attitudes have a positive and significant effect on green psychosocial climate. The findings confirmed the positive and significant effect of green psychosocial climate and environmental citizenship behavior. The green psychological climate does not mediate the relationship between environmental identity and environmental citizenship behavior, but it does mediate the relationship between environmental attitudes and environmental citizenship behavior.

Keywords

organization

Environmental Identity

Environmental Attitudes

Green Psychological Climate

Environmental Citizenship Behavior