Ahmad, Ahmad Bayiz; Esteve, Marc; Kempen, Regina; (2025) Public service motivation and pro-environmental behaviors: A survey experiment. International Public Management Journal 10.1080/10967494.2025.2489397. (In press).

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Abstract

Prior studies suggest that public service motivation (PSM) is associated with individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs), but these studies have been observational and thus have not manipulated PSM experimentally to estimate its causal effect on PEBs. Thus, this study draws on a pre-registered survey experiment with 376 public school teachers in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to examine the influence that activating PSM has on public school teachers’ non-workplace pro-environmental behavioral intentions (PEB-I). Our results show that experimentally activating PSM leads to respondents forming higher PEB-I. Further, we observe that PSM activation has a larger effect on PEB-I for participants with higher overall levels of PSM. By experimentally estimating the effect of PSM on PEB-I, this study enhances our understanding of the causal effects of PSM not only in the workplace but in the wider social world.

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