Environmental Values and Pro-environmental Behaviors of College Students:Mediating Role of Environmental Concern

Abstract

Abstract: Methods of questionnaires were employed to investigate 1034 college students in Beijing and Inner Mongolia. The relationship among environmental concern, environmental values and pro-environmental behaviors and the mediator effect of environmental concern were examined. The results indicated that: (1) The level of female students’environmental concern was significantly higher than that of male students. Mongolian students showed higher level of environmental concern than Han and the current minority nationality participants (2) Altruistic and egoistic influenced two types of pro-environmental behaviors directly. Environmental concern played a completely mediating role in the relation between biospheric value and private behavior and a partial mediating role in the relation between egoistic value andprivate behavior.

Key words: college students, environmental values, pro-environmental behaviors, environmental concern, mediating effect.

摘要： 使用问卷法调查了北京和内蒙古三所高校的1034名大学生,检验了大学生环境关心、环境价值观和亲环境行为的关系,并考察了环境关心在环境价值观和亲环境行为之间的中介作用。结果表明:(1)女性大学生被试环境关心水平显著高于男性大学生被试;蒙古族大学生被试环境关心水平显著高于汉族和其他民族大学生被试。(2)利他价值观和利己价值观对两类亲环境行为的直接效应显著;环境关心在利己价值观和私领域亲环境行为之间起到部分中介作用,在生态圈价值观和私领域亲环境行为之间起到完全中介作用。

关键词: 大学生, 环境价值观, 亲环境行为, 环境关心, 中介作用

CLC Number:

B849

Liu Xianwei, Wu Jianping. Environmental Values and Pro-environmental Behaviors of College Students:Mediating Role of Environmental Concern[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2013, 11(6): 780-785.

刘贤伟, 吴建平. 大学生环境价值观与亲环境行为:环境关心的中介作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2013, 11(6): 780-785.

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