The Role of Future Orientation in Environmental Behavior: Analyzing the Relationship on the Individual and Cultural Levels
| Autor: | Nurit Carmi, Sara Arnon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Population Conservation psychology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Development Affect (psychology) Cross-national research Sustainability Trait Personality Future orientation education Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Society & Natural Resources. 27:1304-1320 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0723 0894-1920 |
| Popis: | The concept of sustainability includes a personal and societal imperative to assume responsibility for the future outcomes of present actions, to look forward, or in other words, to have a future orientation. Future orientation is both a personality trait and a cultural characteristic that strongly influences behavioral decisions on the personal and societal levels, respectively. This research addresses the relationship between future orientation and pro-environmental behavior on both levels. In a representative sample of the population (n = 1216), we found that individuals with developed future orientation demonstrated more pro-environmental tendencies. On the cross-cultural level we also found that in countries that conduct future-oriented practices in general the environment benefits, because the citizens tend to behave more pro-environmentally. The parallel between factors that affect future orientation and environmental behavior and the implications for promoting pro-environmental practices in the so... |
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