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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Heidi C.
dc.contributor.authorDawson, Lauren, N.
dc.contributor.authorBreitkopf, Carmen Radecki
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-30T05:40:38Z
dc.date.available2020-12-30T05:40:38Z
dc.date.issued2012-04-06
dc.identifier.citationPearson HC, Dawson LN, Radecki Breitkopf C (2012) Recycling Attitudes and Behavior among a Clinic-Based Sample of Low-Income Hispanic Women in Southeast Texas. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34469. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034469en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/11667
dc.descriptionWe examined attitudes and behavior surrounding voluntary recycling in a population of low-income Hispanic women. Participants (N = 1,512) 18–55 years of age completed a self-report survey and responded to questions regarding household recycling behavior, recycling knowledge, recycling beliefs, potential barriers to recycling (transportation mode, time), acculturation, demographic characteristics (age, income, employment, marital status, education, number of children, birth country), and social desirability.en_US
dc.description.abstractWe examined attitudes and behavior surrounding voluntary recycling in a population of low-income Hispanic women. Participants (N = 1,512) 18–55 years of age completed a self-report survey and responded to questions regarding household recycling behavior, recycling knowledge, recycling beliefs, potential barriers to recycling (transportation mode, time), acculturation, demographic characteristics (age, income, employment, marital status, education, number of children, birth country), and social desirability. Forty-six percent of participants (n = 810) indicated that they or someone else in their household recycled. In a logistic regression model controlling for social desirability, recycling behavior was related to increased age (P,0.05), lower acculturation (P,0.01), knowing what to recycle (P,0.01), knowing that recycling saves landfill space (P,0.05), and disagreeing that recycling takes too much time (P,0.001). A Sobel test revealed that acculturation mediated the relationship between recycling knowledge and recycling behavior (P,0.05). We offer new information on recycling behavior among Hispanic women and highlight the need for educational outreach and intervention strategies to increase recycling behavior within this understudied population.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectrecyclingen_US
dc.subjectlow-incomeen_US
dc.subjectrecycling behavioren_US
dc.subjectrecycling knowledgeen_US
dc.titleRecycling Attitudes and Behavior among a Clinic-Based Sample of Low-Income Hispanic Women in Southeast Texasen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-12-30T05:40:39Z
dc.identifier.journalPlos Oneen_US


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