A Cross-Cultural Study of Environmental Motive Concerns and Their Implications for Proenvironmental Behavior

Abstract

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.

Environmental Awareness of University Students on White Cheese Waste Water

“…Similarly, the analysis the dairy related environmental survey revealed that, postgraduate students have more awareness than the undergraduate students. It has been reported previously that educational attainment, political orientation and age play significant role on behavior and environmental awareness (Van Liere and Dunlap, 1980;Jones and Dunlap, 1992;Guagnano and Markee, 1995;Milfont et al, 2006;Xiao and Dunlap, 2007). Moreover, our study showed that postgraduates' student possessed positive attitudes towards both environmental issues and dairy related environmental (Abbas and Singh, 2014).…”

“…The reason for this may be that women are aware of environmental problems and individual responsibilities (Larijani, 2010). Some past studies on general environment revealed that, gender, income and other life experience have an effect on environmental awareness (Milfont et al, 2006;Xiao and Dunlap, 2007). Another study on gender environmental awareness showed that women are more aware about environment because they are directly related uncovered to the negative effects environmental dreadful conditions (Schultz et al, 2001).…”

Because My Friends Insist or Because It Makes Sense? Adolescents’ Motivation towards the Environment

“…The instrument therefore allows for individual respondents to show an integrated set of values that favor both preservation and utilization. Milfont, Duckitt, and Cameron [30] describe that, for this reason, the instrument is very suited to the measurement of values within the contemporary framework of the psychology of sustainable development. Our hypothesis is that the more self-determined forms of motivation towards the environment correlate positively to the preservation dimension, while the more controlled regulation styles correlate to the utilization dimension.…”

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