Survey on environmental awareness, attitude and behaviour of Taiwan medical personnel

Tsai, Angela Yi Jing; Tan, Alex Yong Kwang

doi:10.1504/ijgw.2022.127062

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“…Young individuals might be more likely to strengthen their personal norms upon gaining an understanding of their consequences compared to the mature individuals, since they might need to experience the adverse effects of unsustainable behaviors for a much longer duration of time. Similarly, the strong informal environmental education in Taiwan supplemented for the late implementation of formal environmental education, accounting for the nonsignificant differences between low and high education levels among the respondents, which was similar to that seen in the published literature [62,63].…”

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Influences of Social–Psychological Constructs in Predicting Taiwanese Pro-Environmental Behaviors

Yeh,

Tan,

Lai

et al. 2024

Behavioral Sciences

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A value–belief–norm (VBN) model for understanding the pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) of Taiwanese was developed. This formulated VBN model included personal values, openness to change, awareness of consequences, personal norms, social norms, and PEB. Ecological world view and ascription of responsibility were excluded to develop a tighter model. A total of 1079 completed questionnaires were collected and structural equation modelling was utilized, where standard estimates and coefficients of determination validated the formulated VBN model’s effectiveness. Each construct served its role as the mediator between its distal variable and outcome variable, with a substantial level of predictive accuracy, and 74.3% of the variance in PEB was accounted for. Further findings found that mature individuals had a stronger tendency towards awareness of consequences due to personal values; the young had a stronger tendency towards personal norms due to awareness of consequences; men had a stronger tendency towards personal norms due to awareness of consequences; and women had a weaker tendency due to a greater emphasis on altruism. Future interventions, such as sharing of personal pro-environmental lifestyles verbally or through social media, periodically decluttering personal items and maintaining a minimalist lifestyle, where these personal norms are in line with collective social norms, could help to strengthen PEB.

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confidence: 80%