Pro-environmental behaviors: Determinants and obstacles among italian university students
| Autor: | Martina Bortoletto, Federica Violi, Tiziana Schilirò, Fabio Petrelli, Grazia Paladino, Margherita Ferrante, Antonio Azara, Stefania Scuri, Alessio Facciolà, G. Palomba, Marco Vinceti, Marco Dettori, Giuseppina Caggiano, Ileana Federigi, Annalaura Carducci, Marina Tesauro, A Calamusa, Maria Teresa Montagna, Marco Verani, Iolanda Grappasonni, Osvalda De Giglio, Liberata Keti Nicolosi, Chiara Lorini, Alberto Izzotti, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, Giovanni Libralato, Francesca Di Serio, Angela Di Pietro, Maria Fiore, Pamela Di Giovanni, Antonella De Donno |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Carducci, A., Fiore, M., Azara, A., Bonaccorsi, G., Bortoletto, M., Caggiano, G., Calamusa, A., De Donno, A., De Giglio, O., Dettori, M., Di Giovanni, P., Di Pietro, A., Facciola, A., Federigi, I., Grappasonni, I., Izzotti, A., Libralato, G., Lorini, C., Montagna, M. T., Nicolosi, L. K., Paladino, G., Palomba, G., Petrelli, F., Schiliro, T., Scuri, S., Serio, F., Tesauro, M., Verani, M., Vinceti, M., Violi, F., Ferrante, M. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pro-environmental attitude
Functional health literacy Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Pro-environmental behaviors Universities Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention lcsh:Medicine 050109 social psychology Environmental pollution Health literacy 010501 environmental sciences Functional health 01 natural sciences Internal locus of control Literacy Article Risk communication Environmental health Surveys and Questionnaires Surveys and Questionnaire Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Environmental health risk perception Pro-environmental attitudes Students Health risk perception 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common pro-environmental attitudes pro-environmental behaviors environmental health risk perception functional health literacy risk communication internal locus of control Practice pro-environmental attitudespro-environmental behaviorsenvironmental health risk perceptionfunctional health literacyrisk communicationinternal locus of control Health Knowledge lcsh:R 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Attitude Italy Risk perception Locus of control Pro-environmental behavior Attitudes Student Psychology Human |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 6 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 3306, p 3306 (2021) |
| Popis: | The awareness of citizens concerning the health risks caused by environmental pollution is growing, but studies on determinants of pro-environmental behaviors have rarely examined health-related aspects. In this study, we investigated these determinants using data from a large survey among Italian university students (15 Universities: 4778 filled questionnaires). Besides the health-related aspects, represented by environmental health risk perception and functional health literacy, we considered social and demographic characteristics (gender, area of residence, sources of information, trust in institutional and non-institutional subjects, and students’ capacity of positive actions, indicated as internal locus of control). The attitudes towards pro-environmental behaviors were positive for more than 70% of students and positively related with health risk perception, internal locus of control, and health literacy. The correspondence between the positive attitudes towards pro-environmental behaviors and the real adoption of such behaviors was approximately 20% for most behaviors, except for the separate collection of waste (60%). Such a discrepancy can be attributable to external obstacles (i.e., lack of time, costs, lack of support). The health-related aspects were linked to the pro-environmental attitudes, but to a lesser extent to pro-environmental behaviors, owing to the complexity of their determinants. However, they should be taken in account in planning education interventions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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