Creencias Ambientales E Ideología en Población Chilena

Abstract

The global environmental crisis comprises a plurality of social expressions that in Chile, country with energy problems, go from the citizenship rejection to dam construction projects, to the withdrawal of draft law projects concerning the privatization of seeds in parliament. However, it is unknown what are the citizen's environmental beliefs and it´s relation with their political and religious ideology, and their eventual pro-environmental behavior. Egocentric and anthropocentric beliefs and environmental behavior are analyzed here in Chilean adults. It is observed that those who ascribe to right political positions as well as those who declare to believe in a religion tend to be more anthropocentric than egocentric. Regardless of their ideology, all participants are unfavorable to the construction of nuclear power plants and are also skeptical that any government could do more than what it has been done so far to protect the environment.

The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Consumption: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

“…• Some studies focused on religious and non-religious differences, finding that religious individuals adopt SC to a greater extent have a more SC than less or non-religious ones [52][53][54][55][56], while others proved the opposite [57][58][59][60][61].…”

“…First, religion has been measured differently across studies and this dissimilar operationalization of the construct implies that results cannot be integrated [68]. To illustrate, examining only religious affiliation, the results show a negative [57] or positive [69] influence of religion on environmental attitudes and behaviours. But when the measure of religion reflects the individual's deeper commitment, such as the self-perceived level of religiosity, results are different.…”

Experiences of Socio-Environmental Organizations and Movements in the Framework of Environmental Justice in Curicó, Chile and Antioquia, Colombia: An Exploratory Study

“…Because of this search for a consensus and concertation, major progress has been made on environmental issues. Moyano et al [31,32] note that important and highly political debates on the climate crisis have been induced, and these debates have given rise to the enactment of a series of laws that have given life to an institutional framework that promotes good practices and has been guiding Chile toward sustainable development.…”

Adaptación y validación preliminar de la Escala teoría cultural de cosmovisiones ambientales en población chilena

“…En el contexto latinoamericano se han desarrollado y utilizado otros instrumentos vinculados al estudio de la preocupación ambiental, como la Escala de Nuevo Paradigma Ecológico (NEP), que evalúa las actitudes, creencias y valores que las personas tienen respecto al medioambiente (Dunlap, Van Liere, Mertig, & Jones, 2000). Moyano-Díaz y Palomo-Vélez (2014) validaron la versión revisada (NEP-R) para el contexto chileno y encontraron características psicométricas de fiabilidad y de estructura factorial exploratoria adecuadas, respaldando así su aplicación para la evaluación de creencias y actitudes ambientales (Fuentealba & Soto, 2016;Moyano-Díaz, Palomo-Vélez, & Moyano-Costa, 2015) y comportamiento ecológico responsable (Unanue, Vignoles, Dittmar, & Vansteenkiste, 2016). Si bien el uso de la Escala NEP (y NEP-R) es muy popular, esta no ha estado exenta de críticas de distinta índole (Bernstein, 2020): (a) En primer lugar, por su falta de sustento teórico con respecto a las actitudes (en términos socioculturales o psicosociales), lo que conlleva a la definición/ medición indistinta entre constructos tales como creencias, actitudes, valores y visiones del mundo.…”