Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior

Sun, Yuyu; Lu, Xiaoxu; Cui, Jian; Du, Ke; Xie, Shumin

doi:10.1080/13504622.2023.2202368

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“…This can be explained by the reliance on the TPB or the VBN as the most popular conceptual frameworks in the set of reviewed studies (for more details, see the subsection "Conceptual Frameworks in Adolescence"). With a few exceptions, these four variables are positively related to PEB in adolescence [6,7,43,44,46,[48][49][50]52,53,[69][70][71]73,74,78,79,83,84,89]. Longitudinal studies also revealed that perceived behavioral control and intention for PEB predicted higher levels of PEB among adolescents [9,39].…”

Section: Individual Correlatesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Adolescence: A Scoping Review

Denault,

Bouchard,

Proulx

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Today’s adolescents will inevitably face the negative effects of climate change and will need to engage in pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) as part of the solutions. The primary objective of this scoping review was to identify the individual, peer and family, and school and community predictors of PEB in adolescence. The secondary objectives were to highlight the main types of PEBs, the main conceptual frameworks examined in adolescence, and the main research gaps mentioned in prior studies. A bibliographic search on multiple databases was conducted. Among the 2578 records identified, 209 were retrieved and assessed for eligibility, and 62 met the inclusion criteria (i.e., peer-reviewed primary research articles published in English in the last ten years with adolescent data). Results reveal a heterogeneous set of correlates with an imbalance favoring individual correlates. The most frequent PEBs in the reviewed studies were linked to energy and water conservation. The most frequent theoretical frameworks were the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Value–Belief–Norm Theory, while the most frequently highlighted research gap was the use of cross-sectional designs. These results can inform the targets of interventions aimed at increasing PEBs, which are fundamental aspects of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development.

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Section: Individual Correlatesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Adolescence: A Scoping Review

Denault,

Bouchard,

Proulx

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Effects of green and urban environment exposure during classroom breaks in a video-based setting

Mason,

Sella,

di Bosco

et al. 2024

Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education

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Natural environments are beneficial for cognitive functioning and affect. Appraisals of such benefits can lead to the development of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in the long run. This study aimed to investigate the effects of an indirect exposure to a natural and urban environment during a short break in a school day, using a ‘green’ video depicting a walk through a lush forest and comparing it to an urban video portraying a walk through a busy city. We involved 91 fourth and fifth graders in a within-participants design. Results show that students decreased their performance in an arithmetic calculation task after watching the urban video, while no significant differences were observed before and after the exposure to the green environment. Students also reported experiencing more negative affect in relation to the exposure to the urban than the natural environment. Moreover, the students perceived the natural environment as more restorative than the urban environment. Taken together, our findings suggest that exposure to urban environments, in contrast to natural environments, may have negative effects on cognitive and affective functioning during school breaks. Educational implications suggest that when it is not possible to stay in a natural environment around the school, or there is no access to nature due to distance, videos of natural environments can be used during short breaks. They have potential to cognitively and affectively benefit students’ who may often be exposed to environmental stressors.

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Environmental stringency and competitive export strengths: a study in context of environmentally sensitive goods in G20

Mahajan¹,

Majumdar²

2023

IJSE

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PurposeTrade of environmentally sensitive goods (ESGs) is often exposed to countries with less stringent regulations suggesting that those countries have comparative advantage in the polluting sector. The Group of Twenty (G20) members are among the highest polluters, globally. Different stringency policies are enacted time to time in G20 to control environment pollution. However, the impact of policy stringency on export performance of ESGs is seldom examined. The paper aims to address some of the issues concerning this matter.Design/methodology/approachThe present study aims to address the short run and long-run association between Revealed Comparative Advantage of ESGs and Environmental Policy Stringency Index for the period of 1990–2019 in G20. Periodic fluctuations and time adjustment mechanism are also studied. Second Generation Panel Cointegration, Vector Error Correction, Impulse Response Function and Variance Decomposition methods are employed to address the objectives.FindingsResult is evident that more exposure to stringent environmental regulations reduces the comparative advantage of ESGs in the long run. But there is no evidence of the short-run relationship between the variables. The possible reason could be that new regulations enacted prove fruitful in the long run.Originality/valueThe novelty of the study is to focus on inter linkages between stringency and global export competitiveness in G20, almost nonexistent in the past studies. The study also provides a road map to policymakers to find out potential ways for sustainable development by balancing environmental stringency measures and international trade.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-08-2022-0560

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Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Adolescence: A Scoping Review

Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Adolescence: A Scoping Review

Effects of green and urban environment exposure during classroom breaks in a video-based setting

Environmental stringency and competitive export strengths: a study in context of environmentally sensitive goods in G20

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