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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 36, No. 4, 457-475 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022105275962
© 2005 SAGE Publications

Values and their Relationship to Environmental Concern and Conservation Behavior

P. Wesley Schultz

California State University, San Marcos, wschultz{at}csusm.edu

Valdiney V. Gouveia

Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil

Linda D. Cameron

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Geetika Tankha

University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India

Peter Schmuck

Berlin Technical University, Germany

Marek Franek

University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Recent research has examined the relationship between values and attitudes about environmental issues. Findings from these studies have found values of self-transcendence (positively) and self-enhancement (negatively) to predict general concern for environmental problems. Other recent findings have differentiated between environmental attitudes based on concern for self (egoistic), concern for other people (social-altruistic), and concern for plants and animals (biospheric).This article reports the results from a study of the relationship between values and environmental attitudes in six countries: Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, India, New Zealand, and Russia. Results show strong support for the cross-cultural generalizability of the relationship between values and attitudes and on the structure of environmental concern. In addition, analyses of the relationship between values and environmental behavior show evidence for norm activation only for self-transcendence; results for self-enhancement show a consistently negative relationship.

Key Words: values • environmental attitudes • environmental concern • conservation


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