Martin, Christian and Czellar, Sandor
(2017)
Where do biospheric values come from? A connectedness to nature
perspective.
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 52 (10).
pp. 56-68.
ISSN 0272-4944
Abstract
While extant research suggests that holding biospheric values may foster environmentally friendly
behavior, we need to learn more about the development of such values at an individual level. Our
conceptual framework proposes that individual environmental identity could play a role in the formation
of a biospheric value orientation. We conducted two cross-sectional surveys (N ¼ 494, N ¼ 107) and a
quasi-experimental study (N ¼ 271) in the US and Europe and with demographically different samples to
investigate this conceptual linkage. Our findings show that stronger (vs. weaker) self-nature connections
in individuals are related to stronger (vs. weaker) biospheric value orientations, which in turn are
associated with various forms of sustainable behavior. Our research links two major literature streams in
environmental psychology (i.e., research on self-nature connections and biospheric values) by proposing
a developmental account of the relations between environmental identity and relevant values.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Biospheric values;
Environmental values;
Self-nature connection;
Environmental identity;
Sustainable behavior; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
11224 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.04.009 |
| Depositing User: |
Christian Martin
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| Date Deposited: |
11 Oct 2019 14:47 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of Environmental Psychology |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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