@article{ref1,
title="The bicycle and the city: desires and emotions versus attitudes, habits and norms",
journal="Journal of environmental psychology",
year="2014",
author="Passafaro, Paola and Rimano, Alessandra and Piccini, Maria Paola and Metastasio, Renata and Gambardella, Valeria and Gullace, Gisella and Lettieri, Consolata",
volume="38",
number="en",
pages="76-83",
abstract="The paper explores the motivational basis of the use of the bicycle for daily travel necessities in a big city. Different from previous research on cycling, this study used a social psychological model (Perugini and Bagozzi's model of goal-directed behaviour) as a theoretical framework and focussed on prediction of desires. A total of 387 residents of Rome (Italy) were administered a structured questionnaire measuring attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control, positive and negative anticipated emotions, desire, and past behaviour concerning their use of the bike in the city. <br><br>RESULTS showed how positive emotions mediated the effects of attitudes, perceived social norms, and negative emotions on desire. This suggests that the affective factors could play a more direct role in orienting people's desire in relation to both the behaviour considered and the particular context: a large city where mobility is based on motorised systems and support facilities for bicycles are scarce.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0272-4944",
doi="10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.12.011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.12.011"
}