Hopwood Christopher J, Lenhausen Madeline R, Stahlmann Alexander G, Bleidorn Wiebke
Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, Davis, USA.
J Pers. 2024 Jun;92(3):784-799. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12795. Epub 2022 Dec 5.
Climate change is a serious threat. Personality psychologists can help address this threat by understanding what kind of people tend to endorse proenvironmental attitudes and engage in sustainable behavior. Previous research supports reliable associations between proenvironmental attitudes and personality traits. However, this research has generally aggregated different kinds of attitudes into a single composite and has focused on the domain level of personality traits.
This study explored how 10 lower-order aspects of the Big Five personality traits were related to eight different proenvironmental attitudes in three convenience samples from the United States (N = 1234; 1000) and the United Kingdom (N = 538).
All five trait domains were related to at least one proenvironmental attitude across all three samples. Seven of eight proenvironmental attitudes could be predicted by one or more traits in all three samples. We also found evidence that the Openness aspect of Openness to Experience was a more consistent predictor of proenvironmental attitudes than the Intellect aspect. In contrast, there was little benefit in distinguishing between the aspects of other trait domains. We did not find evidence that age or political orientation moderated the associations between proenvironmental attitudes and personality.
Results point to the need for more fine-grained research on individual differences in proenvironmental attitudes and behavior.
气候变化是一个严重威胁。人格心理学家可以通过了解什么样的人倾向于支持环保态度并采取可持续行为来帮助应对这一威胁。先前的研究支持环保态度与人格特质之间存在可靠的关联。然而，这项研究通常将不同类型的态度汇总为一个单一的综合指标，并专注于人格特质的领域层面。
本研究在来自美国（N = 1234；1000）和英国（N = 538）的三个便利样本中，探讨了大五人格特质的10个低阶方面与八种不同的环保态度之间的关系。
在所有三个样本中，所有五个特质领域都与至少一种环保态度相关。在所有三个样本中，八种环保态度中的七种可以由一种或多种特质预测。我们还发现有证据表明，开放性经验维度中的开放性方面比智力方面更能一致地预测环保态度。相比之下，区分其他特质领域的方面几乎没有益处。我们没有发现年龄或政治倾向调节环保态度与人格之间关联的证据。
结果表明需要对环保态度和行为的个体差异进行更细致的研究。
