Original scientific paper

ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR: A MISSING LINK

Krešimir Kufrin ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

Using the results of a research conducted in 1992 on a student sample (N=547; Zagreb and Rijeka Universities), the author analyses: (1) the relationship between general environmental attitudes (humans–nature) and more specific attitudes towards some »classical« environmental issues (nuclear energy, pollution, natural resources, population problems, food contamination, environmental protection), and (2) the relationship between both types of attitudes and readiness for proenvironmental behavior.
Factor analysis of general environmental attitudes has extracted 3 expected dimensions: anthropocentrism, naturalism and technicism. On the side of attitudes towards specific environmental issues, 6 purely correlated factors have been extracted, each factor corresponding to one of the six issues.
Such results of factor analysis, as well as weak correlations between general and specific attitudes, indicate pronounced segmentation of »environmental awareness«. Although specific attitudes are somewhat better predictor (r2 = .122) of the readiness for proenvironmental behavior than general attitudes (r2<+>=<+>.055), both types of attitudes purely explain the variance of the measure of the readiness for proenvironmental behavior.

Keywords

environmental attitudes; environmental awareness; environmental behavior

Hrčak ID:

141414

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141414

Publication date:

15.1.1996.

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