摘要:

Recycling has been touted as an important part of the solution to solid waste problems, yet most citizens still do not recycle, even when recycling is made easy by curbside pickups. This field experiment was designed to increase participation in a city‐sponsored curbside recycling program. Citizens who consistently recycled with the city program were approached and asked to be “recycling block leaders.” Those who agreed were instructed to give approximately 10 nonrecycling neighbors a persuasive communication advocating recycling and special recycling bags. A second treatment group (of nonrecycling households) had bags and the communication left at their door. Results indicated that the curbside recycling of the two experimental groups differed significantly from one another (with the block leader group recycling more), and both differed significantly from a control group receiving no treatment. A discussion of past recycling intervention research and its feasibility for community application is inc

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00539.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Three hundred and fifty‐three layoff victims responded to questions describing their reactions to layoffs. Victims also described management layoff practices. Two measures of procedural fairness in layoff practices (decision‐making characteristics and social accounts) and one measure of layoff outcomes (benefits level) were included. Only decision‐making characteristics predicted exemployee willingness to recruit for a former employer and desire for regulation of layoffs. These results provide further evidence of the importance of procedural justice in organizational decision

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00540.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The research compared attitudes toward a homosexual or heterosexual male described as being healthy or as having terminal cancer, venereal disease, or AIDS. University students reacted to one of eight written descriptions of the target individual depicted in a photograph. Results indicated that attitude were least favorable when the subject was male, when the target was homosexual, and when the target had venereal disease or AIDS. In the AIDS condition, subject knowledge about AIDS was positively related to evaluations of a person with AIDS, but not to the desire to interact with him. Social distance responses toward a person with AIDS were not influenced by the target's sexual orientation. AIDS‐phobia and homophobia are suggested as important explanatory variables. It is concluded that simply increasing public knowledge about AIDS is not enough to ensure a more supportive, social environment for persons with AID

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00541.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The aims of this study of HIV‐1 positive and HIV‐1 negative gay males without disease were (a) to determine whether cynical hostility in these groups (measured by the Cook‐Medley Ho scale) is associated with psychosocial deficits that potentially could influence the course of HIV infection; and (b) to examine the construct validity of the sum of three Ho subsets in this sample. Correlational analyses on the full samples, and multivariate analyses of high‐ and low‐hostility groups (formed using Ho scale cutoffs from previous research), examined person variables (traits, coping style), environmental variables (social support, stressors), and affect. In all domains other than stressors (traits, coping styles, social support, and affect), cynical hostility was associated with psychosocial deficits, with results generally stronger for the full Ho scale than for the subset sum. Results support previous research on psychosocial deficits of the cynically hostile, extend findings to HIV‐infected gay males, and enlarge our understanding of the trait and coping style correlates of cynical hostility. Implications of these findings for HIV infection ar

ISSN:0021-9029    

DOI:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1991.tb00542.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY