Department of Culture, Education and Society, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy.
Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 May 9;20(10):5759. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20105759.
Adolescents represent the future generation, so it is important to pay attention to behaviors that involve them as actors in social activities and constitute the expression of an adequate growth path. Engaging in pro-environmental behaviors leads adolescents to do something good for themselves, for their own community, and for the place in which they live, and this type of conduct increases their levels of well-being and place attachment. This study examines the association between pro-environmental behavior and personal and social well-being in a sample of 1925 adolescents aged 14 to 20 years. Structural equation analyses showed a direct positive effect of pro-environmental behavior on personal and social well-being as well as place attachment. The latter partially mediated the relationship between pro-environmental behaviors and personal and social well-being. This study is significant in that it provides new data on how pro-environmental behaviors enhance adolescents' personal and social well-being by potentially ensuring long-term benefits, thereby suggesting that it is important to stimulate, motivate, and recommend these kinds of actions.
青少年代表着未来的一代，因此，关注他们作为社会活动的参与者的行为，以及这些行为构成的适当成长路径的表达，是很重要的。参与环保行为可以促使青少年为自己、自己的社区和自己居住的地方做一些有益的事情，这种行为可以提高他们的幸福感和地方归属感。本研究在一个由 1925 名 14 至 20 岁青少年组成的样本中，考察了环保行为与个人和社会幸福感之间的关系。结构方程分析表明，环保行为对个人和社会幸福感以及地方归属感有直接的积极影响。后者部分中介了环保行为与个人和社会幸福感之间的关系。这项研究具有重要意义，因为它提供了新的数据，表明环保行为如何通过潜在的长期利益来增强青少年的个人和社会幸福感，这表明鼓励、激励和推荐这些行为是很重要的。
