The effect of proenvironmental motivation on the choice of transport (S3, S4)

The purpose of this study is to replicate and extend the results of the previous study (https://osf.io/tn28x/?view_only=3b307759e1be4979b567aae9f5747717) that focused on whether COVID-19-related restrictions affected people’s environmental motivation and their pro-environmental behavior. More specifically, the purpose of the current study is to replicate the following findings of the original study: (i) COVID-related restrictions did not have a uniform effect on engagement in pro-environmental behaviors; (ii) COVID-related restrictions did not have a uniform effect on behavioral costs of pro-environmental behaviors; (iii) COVID-related restrictions increased perceived behavioral costs of online shopping (delivery time, availability of products, overall difficulty of making the purchase). (iv) COVID-related restrictions did not change preference for environmentally friendly delivery of goods bought online; (v) COVID-related restrictions decreased the weight of environmental attitude as a factor of choice of environmentally friendly delivery options; (vi) COVID-related restrictions increased the weight of delivery time as a factor of choice of delivery options; (vii) COVID-related restrictions did not affect the weight of delivery price as a factor of choice of delivery options. Prior to the current study, we conducted another study using data collected before COVID-related restrictions were introduced (Sample 1, February 19-March 6, 2020) and after they were introduced (Sample 2, April 10-May 11, 2020, respectively); all participants of S2 were in s1, but identifiers of individuals that would link data from S1 and S2 were not available (datasets and materials available here: https://osf.io/tn28x/?view_only=3b307759e1be4979b567aae9f5747717). The current study uses data collected at the time when COVID restrictions were relaxed (Sample 3, September 2-October 3, 2020) and then re-introduced (Sample 4, November 20-December 30, 2020); same participants took place in S3 and S4 and the datasets are linked using identifiers of individual participants.