1 Department of Design & Environmental Analysis, Cornell University.
2 Department of Human Development, Cornell University.
Psychol Sci. 2018 May;29(5):679-687. doi: 10.1177/0956797617741894. Epub 2018 Feb 15.
Prospective, longitudinal analyses revealed that over a 12-year period from ages 6 to 18, individuals who grew up with mothers with more proenvironmental attitudes engaged in more proenvironmental behavior as young adults. A similar marginal association was uncovered between mothers' proenvironmental behaviors and the proenvironmental behavior of their young adult offspring. Maternal educational attainment, but not political ideology, was also associated with more proenvironmental behavior as children matured. Moreover, childhood time spent outdoors was positively associated with increased environmentally responsible behavior in young adulthood. Interestingly, one's own childhood proenvironmental behavior and attitude, at least as assessed at age 6, bear little on one's eventual proenvironmental behavior as a young adult. Finally, among this set of childhood factors, maternal education and childhood time spent outdoors were independent predictors of positive changes in environmental behavior from early childhood to young adulthood.
前瞻性、纵向分析显示，在从 6 岁到 18 岁的 12 年期间，与具有更亲环境态度的母亲一起长大的人，在成年早期表现出更多的亲环境行为。同样，母亲的亲环境行为与成年后代的亲环境行为之间也存在边际关联。母亲的教育程度，而不是政治意识形态，也与孩子成长过程中的亲环境行为有关。此外，儿童时期在户外的时间与成年早期更负责任的环境行为呈正相关。有趣的是，一个人自己的儿童亲环境行为和态度，至少在 6 岁时评估的那样，与他作为一个年轻人的最终亲环境行为关系不大。最后，在这组儿童因素中，母亲的教育程度和儿童时期在户外的时间是从幼儿期到成年早期环境行为积极变化的独立预测因素。
