The green adolescent: The joint contribution of personality and divergent thinking in shaping pro-environmental behaviours

Giancola, Marco; Palmiero, Massimiliano; D’Amico, Simonetta

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138083

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“…In addition, considering only WM does not allow for a comprehensive evaluation of the main factors underpinning the ability to think divergently. To provide a comprehensive evaluation of the moderating role of a musical background, future research should also consider extra-cognitive factors, such as personality traits, cognitive styles, and mental strategies, that could affect DT [61][62][63][64][65]. Third, DT was evaluated by a composite score in line with Runco and colleagues' procedure [49].…”

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The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background

Pino,

Giancola,

Palmiero

et al. 2024

Brain Sciences

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Divergent thinking (DT) is widely considered an essential cognitive dimension of creativity, which involves goal-oriented processes, including working memory (WM), which allows for retrieving and loading of information into the attentional stream and, consequently, enhancing divergence of thinking. Despite the critical role of WM in DT, little work has been done on the mechanism affecting this interplay. The current study addressed the involvement of a formal musical background in the relationship between WM and DT and was conducted with 83 healthy young adults (M = 19.64 years; SD = 0.52 years; 33 females). The participants were requested to indicate if they had a formal background in music in the conservatory (M = 4.78 years; SD = 5.50 years) as well as perform the digit span forward test (DSFT) and the alternative uses task—AUT from the Torrance test of creative thinking (TTCT). The results indicated that years of formal musical background moderated the association between WM and DT. These findings suggest that music enhances the positive effect of high-order cognitive processes, such as WM, on the ability to think divergently. Theoretical and practical implications as well as limitations were discussed.

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The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background

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Palmiero

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“…This measure assesses the Big Five personality traits, namely agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism (hereafter emotional stability), extraversion, and openness. The BFI-10 was used in different web-design studies for short online surveys, showing good psychometric properties (e.g., Coco et al 2021;Giancola et al 2023c). As in previous research, the Spearmen-Brown coefficient was used to evaluate the internal consistency (Eisinga et al 2013), which, in this research, was as follows: agreeableness (ρ = 0.62), conscientiousness (ρ = 0.57), emotional stability (ρ = 0.76), extraversion (ρ = 0.67), and openness (ρ = 0.50).…”

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Exploring the Relationships between Personality and Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Pro-Environmental Behaviors

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Giancola,

Sannino

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Background: Research in psychology has attempted to identify the main predictors and strategies that are useful to promote well-being. Although personality has been recognized as one of the main determinants of well-being, the primary mechanisms involved in this relationship are not fully disclosed. This research addressed the impact of pro-environmental behaviors in the interplay between the Big Five (openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism) and psychological well-being (eudaimonic). Methods: A total of 176 young adults (mean age = 21.55 years; SD age = 1.76 years; 114 F; mean education = 14.57 years; SD = 2.11 years) participated in this study. The participants were requested to complete a short battery of self-report questionnaires, including the Big Five Inventory-10, the Pro-environmental Behavior Questionnaire, and the Psychological Well-being Scale. Results: The results revealed that pro-environmental behaviors only mediated the association between agreeableness and eudaimonic well-being (B = 2.25, BootSE = 1.26, BootCIs 95% [0.149, 5.050]). Conclusions: These findings contributed to identifying the potential mechanisms through which personality contributes to individual eudaimonic well-being, also providing insights into the development of promoting interventions based on eco-sustainable behaviors. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.

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“…There are many articles in psychological journals [2,4,26] that combine the special set of personal characteristics and particular financial behaviour. Such studies lead to better understanding of various internal determinants and help in self-assessment and decision-making understanding, as well as in improving consulting and teaching processes.…”

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“…Kumar et al examined the relationships among traits such as herding behaviour, overconfidence, loss aversion, and five personality types and presented a possible decision tree [2]. Giancola et al used the General Ecological Behaviour Scale to test the attitudes of 146 healthy Italian late adolescents and their relations with the Big Five theory, in order to adopt more environmentally suitable behaviours [26]. Singh et al performed a cross-sectional research design to collect responses from 847 individual investors using a questionnaire.…”

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Exploring Generation Z’s Investment Patterns and Attitudes towards Greenness

Pašiušienė,

Podviezko,

Malakaitė

et al. 2023

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Financial technology is quickly developing, making the financial industry more accessible and encouraging individual investor engagement in the investing process. Generation Z, characterised by a high level of digital literacy, curiosity, and receptivity to innovation, tends to very quickly make decisions and rapidly consume. Since 2007, there has been an increase in the number of articles analysing investor behaviour, drawing on insights from financial and psychological theories. The purpose of this exploratory study is to categorise the behaviour of students surveyed by the type of their investments, while at the same time assessing their willingness to choose green investments. The survey used in the analysis not only aims at collecting data but also educates students on the importance of critical self-awareness and the identification of their emotions to make rational, responsible investment decisions and, at the same time, to form a responsible investor who understands that investing is not only a way to earn a return but also can make a positive impact on the world when green investments are chosen. This study shows that studying students tend to be very rational and interested in contributing to greening the world; however, they are still hesitant to put their theoretical skills into practise and are more likely to provide theoretical support for green investments rather than actually invest. Respondents are grouped according to their potential investment behaviour. The proportions of groups are assessed using statistical inference with a precision of 95% that allowed to propose the method of deriving confidence intervals for each group estimation and, thus, making estimates both reliable and available as statistical estimations.

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The green adolescent: The joint contribution of personality and divergent thinking in shaping pro-environmental behaviours

Cited by 7 publications

References 77 publications

The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background

The Association between Working Memory and Divergent Thinking: The Moderating Role of Formal Musical Background

Exploring the Relationships between Personality and Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Pro-Environmental Behaviors

Exploring Generation Z’s Investment Patterns and Attitudes towards Greenness

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