The importance of culture in predicting environmental behavior in middle school students on Hawai'i Island.

ABSTRACT: Researchers have investigated the factors that influence environmental behavior for decades. Two often-investigated phenomena, connectedness to nature and self-efficacy, often correlate with environmental behavior, yet researchers rarely analyze those correlations along with underlying cultural factors. We suggest that this is a substantial oversight and hypothesize that cultural factors affect environmental behavior, particularly through an interplay with the connectedness to nature and self-efficacy constructs. To test this hypothesis, we surveyed eighth-grade students on the island of Hawai'i. The instrument included items to assess connectedness to nature and self-efficacy (both frequently measured in environmental behavior studies) and multiple measures of behavior. Most of the behavi

SUBMITTER: Gould RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231625 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature