Abstract
ABSTRACT Facing environmental crises as active members of communities, citizens can engage in individual pro-environmental actions as well as in collective actions in order to influence political systems. The aim of this research is to empirically test the influence of environmental self-identity and opinion-based social identity on both individual and collective pro-environmental intentions, as well as to verify the possible mediating role of efficacy appraisal and emotional arousal. In one pre-registered correlational study (N = 380), data demonstrated that opinion-based social identity influences participants’ intention to engage in individual as well as collective actions in favor of the environment, mainly via its effects on collective efficacy appraisal. Environmental self-identity also predicted individual and collective behavioral intentions, but data suggested that pride, and not efficacy beliefs, mediated this relation. Results and limitations are discussed in light of the currently growing body of research on collective pro-environmental actions.
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