The relationships between awareness of consequences, environmental concern and value orientations.

Author(s)
Hansla, A. Gamble, A. Juliusson, A. & Gärling, T.
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Abstract

Different people become engaged in environmental issues and perform proenvironmental behavior because they believe in and are concerned about adverse consequences of environmental problems for themselves (egoistic beliefs and concerns), others (social-altruistic beliefs and concerns), or the biosphere (biospheric beliefs and concerns). These different beliefs and concerns are assumed to derive from corresponding value orientations. Yet, distinguishing egoistic, social-altruistic, and biospheric value orientations has proved difficult in previous research. Based on a survey of 494 Swedish residents between 18 and 69 years old, the present study provides empirical support for that egoistic, social-altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns are related to corresponding awareness-of-consequences beliefs, and that both the beliefs and environmental concerns are related to the three value types power, benevolence, and universalism. (Author/publisher)

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20080663 ST [electronic version only]
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Journal of Environmental Psychology, Vol. 28 (2008), No. 1 (March), p. 1-9, ref.

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