A Multinational Perspective on the Relation between Judeo-Christian Religious Beliefs and Attitudes of Environmental Concern

Schultz, P. Wesley; Zelezny, Lynnette; Dalrymple, Nancy J.

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“…The variables studied in relation to environmental attitudes have been linked with age (Klineberg, McKeever, & Rothenbach, 1998), gender (Tikka, Kuitunen, & Tynys, 2000), social status (Uyeki & Holland, 2000), place of residence (rural or urban, Rauwald & Moore, 2002), and the political and religious orientation of the participants in these studies (Schultz, 2000). For example, the study conducted by Howell & Laska (1992) provides evidence that young people have more favourable attitudes towards the environment than older adults.…”

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Assessment of environmental quality, degree of optimism, and the assignment of responsibility regarding the state of the environment in Latin America

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This study explores the assessments made by the inhabitants of eight Latin American countries regarding the current state of the environment, at a local, national and global scale, and how it is perceived looking ahead to the future. It also examines the assignment of responsibility in the future management of the environment. A total of 944 people took part in the study from the eight participating countries, men and women over the age of 18 with different levels of education. The study uses the Environmental Futures Scale to which two relevant items have been added to assess the environment in the region, as well as the Assignment of Environmental Responsibility Scale. The results show differences between the countries, although in general they are pessimistic regarding the current and future state of the environment at the local, national and global level, with the exception of Brazil. In general, and with the exception of Brazil, in the countries surveyed, people assign a high level of responsibility to external social agents at the different levels, increasing their judgement of external responsibility at the national and global levels of analysis. The implications of these findings for environmental policy and education in the countries of this region are also discussed.

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Assessment of environmental quality, degree of optimism, and the assignment of responsibility regarding the state of the environment in Latin America

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“…Socio-demographic measures Several socio-demographic questions were included to be controlled for in some of the analyses: age, gender, ethnic affiliation, religiosity (on a 8-point scale anchored by not religious at all and very religious), Biblical literalism (Schultz et al 2000), political conservatism (on a 7-point scale anchored by extremely liberal and extremely conservative), self-perceived family economic status (on a 9-point scale anchored by lower income and upper income), and connectedness with nature (Schultz 2001). Shortened impression management (IM) scale Because of space constraints, only 10 balanced items from the IM scale were used.…”

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The effects of social desirability on self-reported environmental attitudes and ecological behaviour

2008

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There are several claims in the literature that social desirability concerns affect people's response to selfreported measures of environmental attitudes and ecological behaviour. However, only a few empirical studies have indirectly evaluated the impact of social desirability on environmental issues measures, and those who did have found only a low impact. This article describes two studies that explicitly address whether socially desirable responding has direct and moderating effects on self-reported environmental attitudes and ecological behaviour. Results from correlational and moderated multiple regression analyses from both studies showed that social desirability had only a weak direct effect on environmental attitudes (but not ecological behaviour), and had no moderating effect on the environmental attitudes-ecological behaviour relationship. Implications of these findings for research on environmental issues are discussed.

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“…Research put forth that individuals, who spent their children seeing wild natural environments, will have more positive feelings towards them as adults (Bixler et al, 2002). The obtained data show that people, who made contact with natural habitats on a more personal level, will be more inclined to help in the protection of such places (Schultz et al, 2000;Williams & Carry, 2002).…”

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A Study towards Views of Teacher Candidates about National and Global Environmental Problems

Alagöz¹,

Akman²

2016

IJRES

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In this research, determination of primary school, social studies and mathematics candidate teachers' awareness and susceptibility levels about environmental problems, solution suggestions about these problems, activities used in environmental education and views about environmental education were targeted. Sample of this research comprised of 449 candidate teachers from Nizip Education Faculty (Gaziantep University) and Education Faculty of Çukurova University. Research carried out in Fall Semester of 2015-2016 Education year. The data collection tool was a questionnaire done by candidate teachers. In the data analysis, number, percentage, average and standard deviation as descriptive statistical methods were used. One way ANOVA test was used in comparison of quantitative continuity data between more than two independent samples. Scheffe test was used as subsidiary post-hoc analysis for determining differences after ANOVA test. Pearson correlation analysis was practiced between continuous variables of research. Analysis results showed that "social susceptibility" and "general susceptibility" level of the participants was high whereas "academic susceptibility" level of the participants was very high. Environmental education, which is the biggest factor in awakening environmental awareness, must be extended to all the masses. One way to make this happen is to put weight on environmental education in the formal education programs.

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A Multinational Perspective on the Relation between Judeo-Christian Religious Beliefs and Attitudes of Environmental Concern

Cited by 215 publications

References 17 publications

Assessment of environmental quality, degree of optimism, and the assignment of responsibility regarding the state of the environment in Latin America

Assessment of environmental quality, degree of optimism, and the assignment of responsibility regarding the state of the environment in Latin America

The effects of social desirability on self-reported environmental attitudes and ecological behaviour

A Study towards Views of Teacher Candidates about National and Global Environmental Problems

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