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The relationships between environmental sensitivity, ecological worldview, personal norms and pro‐environmental behaviors in Chinese children: Testing the value–belief–norm model with environmental sensitivity as an emotional basis
Author(s) -
Wu Lingqiong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.217
Subject(s) - norm (philosophy) , structural equation modeling , psychology , china , social psychology , population , value (mathematics) , environmental education , ecology , geography , sociology , mathematics , political science , demography , biology , statistics , archaeology , law , pedagogy
This study addresses the relationships that ecological worldview, environmental sensitivity, and personal norms have with pro‐environmental behaviors in a particular child population in urban China. The survey questionnaires were distributed to 410 Grade 6 students from eight Green Schools in Shenzhen, China. The sample included 223 (54.3%) boys and 187 (45.6%) girls with ages ranging from 10 to 13 years. The results from structural equation modelling reveal that environmental sensitivity and personal norms were two critical factors in determining students’ pro‐environmental behaviors. The influence of ecological worldview was fully mediated by personal norms, whereas the effect of environmental sensitivity was partially mediated by both personal norms and ecological worldview.