TY - JOUR
T1 - Catholic religious identity, prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors, and connectedness to nature in Chile
AU - NEAMAN, ALEXANDER
AU - Díaz-Siefer, Pablo
AU - Burnham, Elliot
AU - CASTRO VALDEBENITO, MONICA BEATRIZ
AU - Zabel, Sarah
AU - Dovletyarova, Elvira A.
AU - Navarro-Villarroel, Claudia
AU - Otto, Siegmar
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to express our deepest gratitude for the financial support provided by the Dirección de Investigación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, project number 37.336/2014. We thank Michael Schramm, University of Hohenheim, Germany, for helpful comments. The research team also acknowledges Andrei Tchourakov for commenting and editing this article.
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PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - Catholic religious groups have historically been underrepresented in environ mental movements. On the other hand, researchers have sought for decades to understand the factors that determine pro-environmental behavior. In this paper, data were obtained from two studies capturing different sample populations in Chile. The objective of the first study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors. The objective of the second study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, pro-environmental behavior and connectedness to nature. Participants were students at a Catholic university and members of the general public. The findings demonstrate that Catholic identity positively correlated with prosocial behavior, which in turn positively correlated with proenvironmental behavior. However, we found no direct link between Catholic identity and pro-environmental behavior. Likewise, self-reporting Catholic individuals scored significantly lower on the scale of connected- ness to nature, in comparison with nonreligious persons. Finally, the surveys revealed that connectedness to nature positively correlated with pro-environmental behavior.
AB - Catholic religious groups have historically been underrepresented in environ mental movements. On the other hand, researchers have sought for decades to understand the factors that determine pro-environmental behavior. In this paper, data were obtained from two studies capturing different sample populations in Chile. The objective of the first study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors. The objective of the second study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, pro-environmental behavior and connectedness to nature. Participants were students at a Catholic university and members of the general public. The findings demonstrate that Catholic identity positively correlated with prosocial behavior, which in turn positively correlated with proenvironmental behavior. However, we found no direct link between Catholic identity and pro-environmental behavior. Likewise, self-reporting Catholic individuals scored significantly lower on the scale of connected- ness to nature, in comparison with nonreligious persons. Finally, the surveys revealed that connectedness to nature positively correlated with pro-environmental behavior.
KW - Altruism
KW - Christian
KW - Ecological behavior
KW - Environmentally significant behavior
KW - Faith
KW - Pro-environmental behavior
KW - Spirituality
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U2 - 10.14512/GAIA.30.1.9
DO - 10.14512/GAIA.30.1.9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104724046
VL - 30
SP - 44
EP - 50
JO - GAIA
JF - GAIA
SN - 0940-5550
IS - 1
ER -