The Impact of Values, Nature Contact, and Childhood Nature Experience on Pro-environmental Behavior: A Systematic Review

Kemas Somad, Ayyu Budyaningrum, Putu Dewi

2021

Abstract

Environmental issues caused by human activities have been threatening the sustainability of both people and the planet. Thus a shift towards a more environmentally friendly society has become very important. Promoting pro-environmental behavior is seen to be the first key to reach sustainability. The role of values, contact with nature, and childhood nature experiences seem to be important in predicting pro-environmental behavior on the individual level. Therefore, this article aims to systematically review the relation between values orientation, nature contact, and childhood nature experience with pro-environmental behavior respectively. We identified articles related to the topic from the following databases: ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ProQuest. A total of 1241 articles were found with only 21 matching the inclusion criteria thus eligible to be reviewed. Based on our review, values orientation such as biospheric and altruistic values predicted pro-environmental behavior mainly through a chain of effects, while egoistic values showed contradicting results on pro-environmental behavior according to the situational cues which was explained in the paper. Contact with nature did not show constant results in predicting pro-environmental behavior, thus reasons and suggestions were investigated. Childhood nature experiences influenced pro-environmental behavior in adulthood through positive and emotional bonding with the natural environment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Somad K., Budyaningrum A. and Dewi P. (2021). The Impact of Values, Nature Contact, and Childhood Nature Experience on Pro-environmental Behavior: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche, ISBN 978-989-758-580-7, pages 238-250. DOI: 10.5220/0010811000003347

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpsyche21,
author={Kemas Somad and Ayyu Budyaningrum and Putu Dewi},
title={The Impact of Values, Nature Contact, and Childhood Nature Experience on Pro-environmental Behavior: A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche,},
year={2021},
pages={238-250},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010811000003347},
isbn={978-989-758-580-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Psychological Studies - Volume 1: ICPsyche,
TI - The Impact of Values, Nature Contact, and Childhood Nature Experience on Pro-environmental Behavior: A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-580-7
AU - Somad K.
AU - Budyaningrum A.
AU - Dewi P.
PY - 2021
SP - 238
EP - 250
DO - 10.5220/0010811000003347