Individual awareness concerning the current condition of the environment has risen to the attention of psychologists in recent years, their curiosity concerning what personality traits entice a person’s awareness, concern, and intentions to act on environmental needs. An individual’s self-awareness, or self-construal, towards the environmental decay brought on heavily due to destructive human behaviors, could stem from how the individual views themselves and their actions in relation to others and the environment (Hinds & Sparks, 2008). The level to which an individual holds concern for the environment varies—one individual may view recycling and water management as an extreme importance to conserving and protecting the environment, while another
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It should stand noted that interdependent (personal happiness resolves within the happiness of others, as is the egoistic individual) and independent (happiness relies on its own regardless of how others are affected, as is the altruistic and biospheric individual) personalities outline the sub-categories listed above. These groups can potentially assist psychologists in predicting an individual’s concerns, intentions, and actions involving environmentally conserving behaviors (Arnocky, Stroink, & DeCicco, …show more content…
Hardin’s, “The Tragedy of the Commons” (1968). The dilemma is as follows: whether to decrease one’s own indulgences, resources, and freedoms for the well-being of the group, or to continue on the path of absorbing resources at the same rate, all the while risking the future and resource security of the group (the group being everyone other than the individual; the civilization, the society, the race). With the idea of the common’s dilemma, we can now imagine an even clearer image of predictable behavior when dealing with the different inter and independent individuals. Using the findings on self-construal, the proposal exists that an interdependent, biospheric person (an individual valuing the health of the environment as a whole) should choose to give up their own resources for the good of the commonwealth . An altruistic person would most likely choose to spare resources to aid in their fellow citizen’s needs. An egoistic individual would perhaps choose not to partake in reducing their resource consumption, as their general mantra exists to revolve around their selves, not others or the environment: this includes depleting resources others in the community might need. However, in response to depleting resources, it can be argued that these individuals would have some sense of renewability, and realize when resources are too far depleted for renewal sustainability. The problem
It should stand noted that interdependent (personal happiness resolves within the happiness of others, as is the egoistic individual) and independent (happiness relies on its own regardless of how others are affected, as is the altruistic and biospheric individual) personalities outline the sub-categories listed above. These groups can potentially assist psychologists in predicting an individual’s concerns, intentions, and actions involving environmentally conserving behaviors (Arnocky, Stroink, & DeCicco, …show more content…
Hardin’s, “The Tragedy of the Commons” (1968). The dilemma is as follows: whether to decrease one’s own indulgences, resources, and freedoms for the well-being of the group, or to continue on the path of absorbing resources at the same rate, all the while risking the future and resource security of the group (the group being everyone other than the individual; the civilization, the society, the race). With the idea of the common’s dilemma, we can now imagine an even clearer image of predictable behavior when dealing with the different inter and independent individuals. Using the findings on self-construal, the proposal exists that an interdependent, biospheric person (an individual valuing the health of the environment as a whole) should choose to give up their own resources for the good of the commonwealth . An altruistic person would most likely choose to spare resources to aid in their fellow citizen’s needs. An egoistic individual would perhaps choose not to partake in reducing their resource consumption, as their general mantra exists to revolve around their selves, not others or the environment: this includes depleting resources others in the community might need. However, in response to depleting resources, it can be argued that these individuals would have some sense of renewability, and realize when resources are too far depleted for renewal sustainability. The problem