Will “Green” Parents Have “Green” Children? The Relationship Between Parents’ and Early Adolescents’ Green Consumption Values

Gong, Yi; Li, Jian; Xie, Jiushu; Zhang, Long; Lou, Qiuyin

doi:10.1007/s10551-021-04835-y

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“… Collado et al (2019) found that parental norms predicted adolescents’ environmental behaviors. Gong et al (2021) found that parents’ green consumption values predicted children’s environmental values only if there was a positive parent-child relationship. Ando et al (2015) found that parental seriousness, norms, and perceived behavior control mediated parents’ and children’s environmental behavior.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…A parent is an essential social agent who can influence children’s beliefs, values, and behaviors ( Brim, 1966 ; Bandura, 1977 ; Zigler and Seitz, 1978 ; Bronfenbrenner, 1979 ). Recently, researchers have demonstrated the connection between parental socialization and parents’ and children’s pro-environmental behaviors (e.g., Grønhøj and Thøgersen, 2017 ; Katz-Gerro et al, 2020 ; Gong et al, 2021 ; Jia and Yu, 2021 ). Overall, research has agreed that daily parental pro-environmental behaviors influence children’s understanding of human-nature relationships and predict children’s pro-environmental intentions.…”

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Parental Participation in the Environment: Scale Validation Across Parental Role, Income, and Region

Jia

Sorgente

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Parental participation has gained significant attention in environmental psychology, which has revealed a need for an instrument that can measure parental participation with children regarding environmental issues. The present study met this need by validating the parental participation in the environment (PPE) scale. This process began with 45 Chinese parents participating in an individual interview and group discussions, which helped generate a list of eighteen parent-child environmental activities. The activities were then modified and validated in the current study with a diverse group of 969 parents recruited from six major Chinese cities. Both score structure evidence and generalizability evidence were obtained within this sample, and psychometric tests suggested a single factor construct with nine items. Once the PPE scale was revised, it showed measurement invariance across the parent who responded to the items (mother vs. father), across the child’s primary caregiver (mother vs. father vs. grandparent), across the family’s living region (North China vs. South China), as well as across the family’s income group. Finally, evidence based on relations to other variables showed a relationship among parents’ PPE, pro-environmental behavior, and connectedness with nature. As a result, the study provided a novel measure to assess pro-environmental socialization via parental participation.

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Parental Participation in the Environment: Scale Validation Across Parental Role, Income, and Region

Jia

Sorgente

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Both direct and indirect intergenerational transmission processes in the environment domain are supported by research results. For example, Gong et al [133] recently carried out a study on these processes involving a large sample of Chinese families with an early adolescent child (10-15 years). They pointed out that both mothers' and fathers' green consumption values were positively associated with adolescents' green consumption values (i.e., direct transmission).…”

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My Parents Taught…Green Was My Growth! The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Ecological Values in Young Adults’ Pro-Environmental Behaviors and Their Psychosocial Mechanisms

Scopelliti

Barni

Rinallo

2022

IJERPH

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Past research on pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) has identified several psychosocial determinants, ranging from personal values to attitudes—mostly environmental concerns—and norms. Less attention has been devoted to the role of affect and identity processes, until recently, when investigations began into the emotional connections with nature and environmental identity, i.e., one’s self-concept in relation to the natural world. Finally, research into the parent–child transmission of ecological values was recently developed. We aimed to analyze the role of the above-mentioned variables in predicting different PEBs, within a comprehensive framework. We hypothesized a chain relationship between the ecological values of parents and mothers, the ecological values of their children, environmental concerns, affect towards nature, environmental identity, and PEBs, as the final outcomes. In a cross-sectional exploratory study, an online questionnaire was administered to 175 young Italian adults. Validated scales to measure the above variables and socio-demographics were included. The results showed a different pattern of predictors for each PEB. Overall, the importance of the emotional connection with nature and environmental identity in predicting PEBs has clearly emerged. Finally, the role of intergenerational transmission of ecological values in PEBs, with differences between the influence of fathers and mothers, is outlined. The study provides a more integrative view of PEBs by considering the variety of human processes. Theoretical and practical implications of results are discussed.

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“…Specific to environmental research, previous researchers have explored the transmission of pro-environmental behaviors from parents to children, which provided convergent evidence for the positive influence of parents on their children’s pro-environmental behaviors. Parents’ environmental values (Gong et al, 2022; Grønhøj & Thøgersen, 2009), attitudes (Collado et al, 2019), motivation (Grønhøj & Thøgersen, 2017), and behaviors (Jia & Yu, 2021; Grønhøj & Thøgersen, 2012) are key factors for promoting their children’s pro-environmental behaviors. For example, they can influence children’s pro-environmental behaviors through family norms (Collado et al, 2019) and verbal communications (Meeusen, 2014).…”

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“…Numerous studies have explored the socialization process between parents’ and children’s values and behaviors in non-environmental contexts. Researchers have found that parents’ internal values and attitudes were the psychological basis for determining their behaviors and that their behaviors could, in turn, act as a proximal socialization force that generates the intergenerational transmissions of these values and behaviors (Gong et al, 2022; Grønhøj & Thøgersen, 2009).…”

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Multilevel Evidence for the Parent-Adolescent Dyadic Effect of Familiarity With Climate Change on Pro-Environmental Behaviors in 14 Societies: Moderating Effects of Societal Power Distance and Individualism

Xia

2022

Environment and Behavior

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In the present study, we adopted a global view for exploring how parent–adolescent dyads influence one another’s pro-environmental behaviors across 14 societies. We evaluated whether their own and the other’s familiarity with climate change are linked with their pro-environmental behaviors between parents and adolescents. We also explored the moderating role of societal power distance and individualism on these dyadic effects. We tested hypotheses using the data from the Program for International Student Assessment 2018 (including 62,080 parent–adolescent dyads from 14 societies). Conducting multilevel actor–partner interdependence models, we found that parents’ and adolescents’ familiarity with climate change generally predicted their own and the other’s pro-environmental behaviors within a family context in most societies. More importantly, the dyadic patterns were stronger in societies with lower levels of power distance or higher levels of individualism. Finally, we discuss the implications of promoting pro-environmental behaviors from a cultural perspective and a dyadic approach.

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Will “Green” Parents Have “Green” Children? The Relationship Between Parents’ and Early Adolescents’ Green Consumption Values

Cited by 40 publications

References 84 publications

Parental Participation in the Environment: Scale Validation Across Parental Role, Income, and Region

Parental Participation in the Environment: Scale Validation Across Parental Role, Income, and Region

My Parents Taught…Green Was My Growth! The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Ecological Values in Young Adults’ Pro-Environmental Behaviors and Their Psychosocial Mechanisms

Multilevel Evidence for the Parent-Adolescent Dyadic Effect of Familiarity With Climate Change on Pro-Environmental Behaviors in 14 Societies: Moderating Effects of Societal Power Distance and Individualism

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