Environment-Specific vs. General Knowledge and Their Role in Pro-environmental Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Environmental knowledge has been established as a behavior-distal, but necessary antecedent of pro-environmental behavior. The magnitude of its effect is difficult to estimate due to methodological deficits and variability of measures proposed in the literature. This paper addresses these methodological issues with an updated, comprehensive and objective test of environmental knowledge spanning a broad variety of current environment related topics. In a multivariate study (n = 214), latent data modeling was employed to explore the internal factor structure of environmental knowledge, its relationship with general knowledge and explanatory power on pro-environmental behavior. We tested competing factor models and uncovered a general factor of environmental knowledge. The main novel f

SUBMITTER: Geiger SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454026 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature