I'm looking at environmental (i.e. green/ sustainable) self-identity and potential compartmentalisation in the workplace and home setting. I'm interested in whether people have an integrated environmental self-identity or whether their environmental self-identity could be compartmentalised leading to different pro-environmental behaviours in the two settings. Any suggestions are highly appreciated!
Hi Caroline,
I would like to draw your attention to the relational models theory. It is an established theory and there are some measurements which you can apply. The main reason why I propose you this theory is: people can use different models of relationships in different settings. For example, they can stick to CS (communal sharing) model at home and to MP (market pricing) model in the working environment. It is close to the notion of self-identity.
Please find attached our recent paper. I also recommend you to read the paper by Fiske (1992) and the book chapter by Haslam (2004) to understand how the theory works. A questionnaire can be found in the paper by Haslam and Fiske (2000).
Maybe it is not exactly what you are looking for but this might help.
Sincerely,
Eugene
PS. All mentioned papers are attached below
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Teaching%20407/psych407%20readings/Fiske1992.pdf
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/RM_PDFs/Haslam_Research_on_Relational_Models_2004.pdf
Article Ideological shift and employees’ relationships: Evidence from Ukraine
Article Relational models theory: A confirmatory factor analysis
Sounds like interesting research - would be interested to hear more.
One relatively simple method would be to use something a bit like the INS (Inclusion of Nature in Self) measure - it is basically a series of gradually overlapping circles. You could do this for work and home and then look at the 2 scores and then generate some kind of similarity metric (reflecting the degree of integration) or something like that?
Thank you for your suggestions!
@ Tony, thank you for pointing that scale out. I hadn't heard of it but was considering a similar measure; i.e. graphically overlapping circles for home and work. It's much better to base it on an existing scale though, so thank you for your suggestion.
I'd be happy to tell you more about my research. I would suggest that I e-mail you?
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