Practice Matters: Pro-environmental Motivations and Diet-Related Impact Vary With Meditation Experience.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness has emerged as a potential motivator for sustainable lifestyles, yet few studies provide insight into the relationship between mindfulness practice levels and individual engagement in pro-environmental behaviors. We also lack information about the significance of meditators' behavioral differences in terms of their measurable environmental impact and the motivational processes underlying these differences in pro-environmental performance. We classified 300 individuals in three groups with varying meditation experience and compared their pro-environmental motivations and levels of animal protein consumption. Exceeding prior attempts to compare high-impact behaviors of mindfulness practitioners and non-practitioners, we created the most detailed classification of practice engagem

SUBMITTER: Thiermann UB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7772404 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature