Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK.
Scand J Psychol. 2010 Apr 1;51(2):139-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00760.x. Epub 2009 Nov 24.
Previous studies have shown that environmental concerns (ECs) can be reduced to a three-factor model - comprising altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic concerns - but there have been few studies examining individual difference predictors of ECs. In this study with 203 individuals from a British community sample, we show that biospheric concern was significantly associated with participants' age, political orientation, Machiavellianism, and the Big Five personality traits of Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, and Conscientiousness. Altruistic concern was significantly associated with sex, age, political orientation, and Machiavellianism, but not the Big Five traits, whereas egoistic concern was not significantly associated with any of these predictors except sex. These results are discussed in relation to previous work on ECs and pro-environmental behavior.
先前的研究表明，环境关注（ECs）可以被简化为一个包含利他主义、生态和自我中心主义关注的三因素模型，但很少有研究检验 ECs 的个体差异预测因素。在这项对英国社区样本中的 203 名个体进行的研究中，我们表明，生态关注与参与者的年龄、政治取向、马基雅维利主义以及大五人格特质中的宜人性、情绪稳定性和尽责性显著相关。利他主义关注与性别、年龄、政治取向和马基雅维利主义显著相关，但与大五人格特质无关，而自我中心主义关注与除性别以外的任何这些预测因素均无显著关联。这些结果与先前关于 ECs 和亲环境行为的研究进行了讨论。
