Outcome expectancy: A key factor to understanding childhood exposure to nature and children's pro-environmental behavior

Collado, Sílvia; Evans, Gary W.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.12.001

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“…A third limitation is that our study explains 45% of the variance from self-reported PEB. This percentage is similar to the one found in previous studies with children (Collado and Evans, 2019), but other variables such as social norms (Casaló and Escario, 2016) and perceived restorativeness might help us obtain a deeper understanding of children's PEB.…”

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“…According to previous studies, some of the drivers of children's PEB include frequent contact with nature (Evans et al, 2018;Collado and Evans, 2019;Otto et al, 2019), pro-environmental attitudes (Cheng and Monroe, 2012;Larson et al, 2015), social norms (Casaló and Escario, 2016;Evans et al, 2018), and perceived restorativeness . To the best of our knowledge, there has been little research done on the role played by the child's environment on their PEB, especially in developing countries.…”

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The Role of Urban/Rural Environments on Mexican Children’s Connection to Nature and Pro-environmental Behavior

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Living in rural areas has been described a driver for behaving in a pro-environmental way, mainly due to the more frequent contact with nature that people from rural areas have. However, the processes that link living in a rural area and behaving in a more ecological manner have not been systematically studied. Moreover, most studies have focused on adults living in developed countries. Given the importance that the actions conducted by people in developing countries have for the future of the environment, as well as the relevance of children's pro-environmentalism for nature conservation, we present a brief research report examining the relationship between Mexican children's place of residence and self-reported pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Participants were 200 children from Mexican rural areas (<1,000 inhabitants) and 200 from a Mexican urban city (>150,000 inhabitants). Children were between 9 and 12 years old. Children's connection to nature was considered as a mediator in the relationship between children's place of residence and PEB. Our findings revealed that rural children hold a stronger sense of connection to nature and behave in a more pro-environmental way than urban children. In addition, place of residence was directly and positively linked to their PEBs, and this relationship was mediated by children's connection to nature. The relationship between connection to nature and PEB was stronger for girls than for boys. The model explained 45% of the variance of children's self-reported PEBs.

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“…Nonetheless, in this respect the results are controversial. The positive relationships found in this study between PEBs, knowledge of CE, beliefs about environmental behavior, satisfaction with life, and connectedness to nature in a rural environment support the recent study of Collado [33] and the previous ones of Cheng and Monroe [36] and Otto and Pensini [34], where correlations between sustainability, PEBs, and connectedness to nature in a rural environment were found. Our results also support studies in which an association between sustainability and experiences in natural environments was found, both in adults [30,31] and in children [32].…”

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“…However, the results are controversial. Some research with children has focused on analyzing the role of experiences in natural environments and their relation to PEBs, finding positive relationships between them [33] and an increase in connectedness to nature [34]. Regarding age, connectedness to nature is related to PEBs in both adults [12,27,28] and children [35].…”

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Is Knowledge of Circular Economy, Pro-Environmental Behavior, Satisfaction with Life, and Beliefs a Predictor of Connectedness to Nature in Rural Children and Adolescents? A Pilot Study

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Sustainable development (SD) is crucial to maintaining and preserving the planet we live on. The new paradigm of circular economy (CE) corresponds to the sustainable development goals and includes environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The United Nations has set quality education and the search for good health and well-being in the long term as tools for achieving SD. This study aims to identify the predictors of connectedness to nature in children and adolescents using knowledge of CE, pro-environmental behavior, beliefs about caring for the environment, and satisfaction with life as possible predictive variables. The exploration of the influence of these predictors on connectedness to nature, taking sex and age as covariates, was performed using a binary logistic regression model. We found that low scores on pro-environmental behavior, satisfaction with life, knowledge of waste management and CE, and beliefs about environmental behavior were related to a low degree of connectedness to nature. Thus, our findings suggest that the educational system must promote not only the assimilation of knowledge and beliefs but also satisfaction with life given its relationship with connectedness to nature.

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“…Perilaku ramah lingkungan anak sebenarnya dipengaruhi oleh banyak faktor. Kegiatan mengajak anak-anak kontak langsung dengan alam melalui tempat-tempat terbuka yang menyediakan suasana alami akan mempengaruhi sikap anak lebih peduli lingkungan [3,5,6]. Meski studi studi Isted dan Saphiro [7] mengatakan bahwa anak yang telah mendapatkan pendidikan lingkungan mampu mempengaruhi orangtua dan keluarganya menjadi lebih amah lingkungan, studi Collado et al [8] pada anak usia 9 sampai 13 tahun membuktikan bahwa perilaku ramah lingkungan anak dipengaruhi oleh orangtua, teman baik, dan anak yang lebih tua darinya.…”

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Environmental education creates environmental behaviour of people. Children are social agent who plays prominent role for shaping future life. In order to create environmental consciousness generation environmental education should be delivered to children. This paper reports community engagement activity through providing environmental education for first to third grade of primary school children. The delivery process of environmental education to children was transferred through movies and games. Two movies were played to children have attracted them to understand of the prominent of putting trash to the right litter bin. Meanwhile, game simulation for practicing waste separation resulted 96% of children were able to put rubbish in the right litter: organic, paper and plastic litter. Children who did wrong argue that they made mistakes due to time limit which influenced them to put to the right litter.

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Outcome expectancy: A key factor to understanding childhood exposure to nature and children's pro-environmental behavior

Cited by 48 publications

References 49 publications

The Role of Urban/Rural Environments on Mexican Children’s Connection to Nature and Pro-environmental Behavior

The Role of Urban/Rural Environments on Mexican Children’s Connection to Nature and Pro-environmental Behavior

Is Knowledge of Circular Economy, Pro-Environmental Behavior, Satisfaction with Life, and Beliefs a Predictor of Connectedness to Nature in Rural Children and Adolescents? A Pilot Study

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