Effects of hiking participants’ pro-environmental behavior and recreation specialization on their life satisfaction

The role of life satisfaction as a determinant of pro-environmental behavior remains largely unexplored in the extant literature. Using a sample of undergraduate students, we explore the effect of life satisfaction on low- and high-cost pro-environmental behaviors. While low-cost pro-environmental behavior has been defined as recycling activities, high-cost pro-environmental behavior is defined in a contingent valuation framework in which respondents are asked about their willingness to pay extra for offsetting CO2 emissions, thus avoiding treating the proposed payment as symbolic. Controlling for demographic characteristics and environmental concern, results suggest that life satisfaction has a slightly stronger, and more significant, effect on high-cost pro-environmental behavior than in low-cost pro-environmental behavior. This study also finds that environmental concern and having siblings with a university degree increases the probability of engaging in both behaviors. However, family income is a better predictor of high-cost pro-environmental behavior than of low-cost pro-environmental behavior.

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Can Recreation Specialization Negatively Impact Pro-Environmental Behavior in Hiking Activity? A Self-Interest Motivational View

Leisure Sciences ◽

10.1080/01490400.2021.1987358 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Wangoo Lee ◽

Jung Kyu Lee

Keyword(s):

Environmental Behavior ◽

Self Interest ◽

Recreation Specialization

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HOMO EUDAIMONICUS: A ROLE OF A NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODEL IN REFORMATTING A CONTEMPORARY SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

10.31108/7.2021.39 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Uliana LUSHCH-PURII ◽

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Environmental Behavior ◽

Environmental Awareness ◽

Satisfaction Level ◽

Social Business ◽

The Future

Peculiarities of a new anthropological model homo eudaimonicus are analysed, as well as the specificity and perspectives of its implementation in the contemporary system of education. The efficiency of homo eudaimonicus model for the achievement of sustainable and lasting happiness, increase of life satisfaction level and enhancement of environmental behavior of a person is elucidated. It is explicated that the purpose of happiness-oriented education is to teach children ways of achieving happiness from socially useful activities. Methodsand techniques for mastering the temporal continuum of happiness are suggested, that is to experience happiness due to happy memories, appreciation of the present and positive scenarios of the future. Keywords: homo eudaimonicus, happiness, happiness-oriented education, social business, environmental awareness.

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Does life satisfaction matter for pro-environmental behavior? Empirical evidence from China General Social Survey

Quality & Quantity ◽

10.1007/s11135-018-0763-0 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 449-469 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Erda Wang ◽

Nannan Kang

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Environmental Behavior ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Social Survey

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Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000192 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 103-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Minjie Lu ◽

Angel Y. Li ◽

Helene H. Fung ◽

Klaus Rothermund ◽

Frieder R. Lang

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Time Perspective ◽

Well Being ◽

Future Time Perspective ◽

Hong Kong Chinese ◽

Future Time ◽

Time Perspectives ◽

Time Extension ◽

Future Self ◽

The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

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