The Contribution of Psychological Approach to Addressing Environmental and Sustainable Development Problems.

Abstract

The current study aims to highlight some of the psychological approaches adopted by environmental psychology to encourage pro-environmental behaviors and sustainable developments through some of psychosocial models: the engaging communication model, the induced hypocrisy model, and the constructivist model, to examine how to convince people to do what they’re supposed to do toward the environmental problems freely. Enlightening people of the situation of a discrepancy between what they are currently calling out to people and their past practices. And finally, defining the structures around which the representation is organized towards the environment, which served as behavioral guides, therefore modified or changed them. All of this is to demonstrate what must be done to change people’s knowledge and attitudes about the environment and make their behaviors with it responsible and sustainable. The analytical reading of the psychological models has contributed to providing a better understanding of the behavioral variables that widely control man’s interactions with his environment. Finally, more attention should be paid to the environment, according to the constructivist model of representation, especially since the latter represents a meeting-point between what is psychological and what is social, and its element includes knowledge, evaluation, and process fields, together form an integrated whole which is what any study needs to develop effective intervention policies and reach a radical solution to these problems, not to mention to pay attention to the relationship between attitude and behavior in their relationship with the environment.