To Explain Behavior Change We Need to Research All Stages of This Process: Where Environmental Psychology Needs to Connect the Dots

摘要: Abstract Promoting voluntary behavior change is a central research topic in environmental psychology. Thus one would expect to find huge body of analyzing the dynamic nature processes as well their psycho-social drivers. However, reading existing literature with this expectation quite disappointing: It still dominated by cross-sectional studies using constructs derived from limited number theoretical frameworks predict behavioral intentions. assumption underlying our article that psychology urgently needs two things: (1) More actual course processes, and (2) newer more diverse perspectives for explaining different stages processes. For purpose systematically adopts first step results health psychology: Here similar discussion resulted identification five overarching themes representing explanations processes: motives, self-regulation, resources, habits, environmental/social influences. In second we present stage model self-regulated (SSBC) an example framework which integrates into testable model. third summarize already testing hypotheses SSBC.