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Environmental concern can be driven by biospheric, egoistic or altruistic motives. Few studies, however, have compared these three environmental motive concerns across cultural groups. This study investigated differences between European New Zealanders and Asian New Zealanders in environmental motive concerns and their implications for proenvironmental behaviors. The results demonstrated that the tripartite model of environmental concerns provided good fit in both samples. They also indicated that Asian New Zealanders were significantly higher than European New Zealanders on egoistic concern, whereas European New Zealanders were significantly higher on biospheric concern. For European New Zealanders, biospheric concern predicted proenvironmental behavior positively, whereas egoistic concern predicted it negatively. For Asian New Zealanders, in contrast, both biospheric and altruistic concerns predicted proenvironmental behavior positively. The implications of these findings for environmental education campaigns are discussed.

Social problems in many domains, including health, education, social relationships, and the workplace, have their origins in human behavior. The documented links between behavior and social problems have sparked interest in governments and organizations to develop effective interventions to promote behavior change. The Handbook of Behavior Change provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary theory, research, and practice on behavior change. The handbook incorporates theory- and evidence-based approaches to behavior change with chapters from leading theorists, researchers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines, including psychology, sociology, behavioral science, economics, and implementation science. Chapters are organized into three parts: (1) Theory and Behavior Change; (2) Methods and Processes of Behavior Change: Intervention Development, Application, and Translation; and (3) Behavior Change Interventions: Practical Guides to Behavior Change. This chapter provides an overview of the theory- and evidence-based approaches of the handbook, introduces the content of the handbook, and provides suggestions on how the handbook may be used by different readers. The handbook aims to provide all interested in behavior change, including researchers and students, practitioners, and policy makers, with up-to-date knowledge on behavior change and guidance on how to develop effective interventions to change behavior in different populations and contexts. ; peerReviewed

Social problems in many domains, including health, education, social relationships, and the workplace, have their origins in human behavior. The documented links between behavior and social problems have sparked interest in governments and organizations to develop effective interventions to promote behavior change. The Handbook of Behavior Change provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary theory, research, and practice on behavior change. The handbook incorporates theory- and evidence-based approaches to behavior change with chapters from leading theorists, researchers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines, including psychology, sociology, behavioral science, economics, and implementation science. Chapters are organized into three parts: (1) Theory and Behavior Change; (2) Methods and Processes of Behavior Change: Intervention Development, Application, and Translation; and (3) Behavior Change Interventions: Practical Guides to Behavior Change. This chapter provides an overview of the theory- and evidence-based approaches of the handbook, introduces the content of the handbook, and provides suggestions on how the handbook may be used by different readers. The handbook aims to provide all interested in behavior change, including researchers and students, practitioners, and policy makers, with up-to-date knowledge on behavior change and guidance on how to develop effective interventions to change behavior in different populations and contexts. ; Peer reviewed

Intro -- Editor's Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part 1: The Ecological Range of Relationships Between Behavior and Health -- 1: Introduction -- Scope of Behavior and Health -- Global Trends in Health and Behavior -- Historical and Conceptual Roots of Behavioral Medicine -- Behaviorism -- Cognitive Psychology and Decision Making -- Psychosomatic Medicine -- Public Health and the Ecological Perspective -- Key, Cross-Cutting Concepts -- Principles of Behavior Change Are Not Necessarily Consistent with Perspectives of Clinical Medicine -- Distinctions Among Behaviors Do Not Follow Distinctions Among Clinical Diseases -- Diseases Pose Distinct Behavioral Challenges -- Behavior and Health Behaviors Are Fundamentally Contextual -- Interaction of Genes and Behavior Is the Norm, Not the Exception -- Reciprocal Determinism Is Very Important -- Individual Responsibility Versus It Takes a Village -- Global Perspective -- What Is Global? -- Plan for the Book -- References -- 2: Overview of Types of Disease, Their Epidemiology, and Treatments -- Obesity -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Cancer -- Epidemiology -- Risk Factors for Cancer -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Epidemiology -- Impacts and Complications -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Bronchial Asthma -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Treatment, and Management -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Tuberculosis -- Epidemiology -- Prevention, Management, and Treatment -- Mental Disorders -- Epidemiology.