Does life satisfaction matter for pro-environmental behavior? Empirical evidence from China General Social Survey

Wang, Erda; Kang, Nannan

doi:10.1007/s11135-018-0763-0

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“…Regarding satisfaction with life, we found that the members of the group with the highest scores were 7 times more likely to feel a higher degree of connectivity with nature. Considering that satisfaction with life is an indicator of well-being and, therefore, of health, this finding supports the positive and significant relationships between well-being, health, and connectivity with nature found in both adults [37,40,49] and children [35], although, in contrast with Wang and Kang's findings [16], it is only a reciprocal influence. In this vein, the results indicate that well-being is a relevant aspect to be considered in both public health agendas [50] and the United Nations SD agenda, i.e., the 2030 Agenda.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…In any case, it would seem from our literature review that PEB is a multidimensional construct that includes several types of behaviors that both foster sustainable development and improve health [13] by increasing the quality of life [14] and satisfaction with life [15]. In addition, some authors [16] report a bidirectional relationship between satisfaction with life and pro-environmental behavior. Nonetheless, although pro-environmental behavior seems to be influenced by psychological and socio-demographical factors, the ones that specifically influence this behavior have yet to be identified [17].…”

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confidence: 89%

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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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confidence: 89%

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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“…Employee green behavior within hotels differs from actions in workplaces where such behavior is based on people's ages, environmental awareness, knowledge, values, concerns, beliefs, and life satisfaction (Chan et al, 2014;Huang, 2016;Norton et al, 2015;Y. F. Wang, 2016;E. Wang & Kang, 2019;Wells et al, 2016).…”

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Being sustainable: The three‐way interactive effects of CSR, green human resource management, and responsible leadership on employee green behavior and task performance

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Zhang

2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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The main goal of this research was to analyze the three-way interactive effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR), green human resource management (GHRM), and responsible leadership on employee green behavior and task performance. Social cognition theory was adopted to explore the context-behavior-performance framework. The research hypotheses were tested using data from a survey of 261 Millennial employees in five-star hotels in China. The results indicated that the three-way interactive effect of CSR, GHRM, and responsible leadership on employee green behavior and performance was significant and positive. In addition, green behavior played a mediation role in this relationship after controlling the effect of organizational identity. This suggests that behavioral improvements are a better predictor of performance than perceptions of organizational identity. The analysis enriches the context-behavior-performance framework literature and highlights that organizations can enhance sustainability by implementing CSR, GHRM, and responsible leadership.

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“…Other potential IVs could be used to test a causal explanation for the relation between pro-environmental behaviour and well-being (cf. Wang & Kang, 2019). Indeed, previous literature has shown that the use of an IV approach to study research topics where the manipulation of independent variables is not feasible is a suitable alternative to draw causal conclusions from otherwise correlational data.…”

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Educational attainment and environmental concern in China: An instrumental variable approach

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Palomo‐Vélez

Olivos-Jara

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Asian J of Social Psycho

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Formal education is theorised to be an essential vehicle to promote and trigger pro-environmental attitudes and behavioural changes among citizens via the increase of public awareness and concern. However, robust estimations of its causal effect on individuals' concern for the environment are scarce. This study aimed to estimate the effect of educational attainment on environmental concern in China, addressing the problem of endogeneity. China is the largest emitter of CO 2 and faces severe environmental problems due to its rapid process of industrialisation and urbanisation. The findings show that educational attainment has a robust positive causal effect on environmental concern in China. After addressing potential endogeneity issues using an instrumental variable approach, the effect is stronger than a conventional ordinal least squares estimation. Thus, education is a crucial path of action to promote environmental concern and subsequent pro-environmental behaviour in China.

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Does life satisfaction matter for pro-environmental behavior? Empirical evidence from China General Social Survey

Cited by 47 publications

References 57 publications

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

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

Being sustainable: The three‐way interactive effects of CSR, green human resource management, and responsible leadership on employee green behavior and task performance

Educational attainment and environmental concern in China: An instrumental variable approach

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