Outcome expectancy: A key factor to understanding childhood exposure to nature and children's pro-environmental behavior
Resumen: Introduction
Human behavior is largely responsible for the environmental issues we face today (Cook et al., 2013), requiring a deeper understanding of the substance and etiology of pro-environmental behaviors (Gifford, 2011; Otto, Kaiser, & Arnold, 2014; Schultz & Kaiser, 2012). Pro-environmental behavior refers to actions that contribute to the sustainability of nature (Schultz & Kaiser, 2012). Given that children will be the ones grappling with future environmental challenges, and that most environmental education programs are organized for youngsters, a better understanding of the factors and processes leading children to behave in a more environmentally responsible manner is relevant both for scientific and practical reasons.
One of the most widely documented correlates of pro-environmental behavior is childhood experiences in natural environments (Chawla & Derr, 2012; Cheng & Monroe, 2012; Evans, Otto, & Kaiser, 2018). Several ideas have been offered to explain why experiences in nature at an early age could play a formative role in children's pro-environmental behaviors...

Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.12.001
Año: 2019
Publicado en: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 61 (2019), 30-36
ISSN: 0272-4944

Factor impacto JCR: 3.301 (2019)
Categ. JCR: PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 22 / 138 = 0.159 (2019) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES rank: 35 / 123 = 0.285 (2019) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.818 - Social Psychology (Q1) - Applied Psychology (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PSI-2013-44939
Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)
Área (Departamento): Área Psicología Social (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)

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