Openness Is Related to Proenvironmental Behavior Both Within and Across Families

IF 5.2 2区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI:10.1177/0013916519853294

Cecilia Puech, Jake Dougal, Caitlin Deery, Colin Waddell, R. Mõttus

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Abstract

Environment-friendly behaviors may be desirable in helping to solve worldwide ecological issues. This has sparked interest in the associations of such behaviors with established psychological constructs such as the Five-Factor Model personality traits. Of these, Openness has been most consistently linked with proenvironmental behavior; yet, the extent of causality in this association is unclear. Using a sample of 168 individuals, including 84 sibling pairs, the present study replicated the association while controlling for factors in which families differ (environmental factors that siblings share and a proportion of genetic variance). Proenvironmental behavior was correlated with Openness (r = .51) and the association could be observed both between (r = .57) and within families (r = .29), with adjustments for various demographic variables. These findings indicate that more open individuals tend to engage in proenvironmental behaviors, even when controlling for possibly confounding factors shared and not shared between siblings.

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开放性与家庭内外的环保行为有关

对环境友好的行为可能有助于解决世界范围内的生态问题。这引发了人们对这种行为与已建立的心理结构（如五因素模型人格特征）之间的联系的兴趣。其中，开放性与环保行为的联系最为一致；然而，这种关联的因果关系程度尚不清楚。本研究使用168个个体的样本，包括84对兄弟姐妹，复制了这种关联，同时控制了家庭差异的因素（兄弟姐妹共享的环境因素和一定比例的遗传变异）。亲环境行为与开放性相关（r=.51），在对各种人口统计变量进行调整后，在家庭之间（r=.57）和家庭内部（r=.29）都可以观察到这种关联。这些发现表明，更开放的个体倾向于从事亲环境行为，即使在控制兄弟姐妹之间共享和不共享的可能混淆因素时也是如此。

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13.30

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1.80%

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期刊介绍： Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.