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

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.

scholarly journals Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Amberg ◽  
Csaba Fogarassy
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
Environmentally Friendly Production

Consumers and producers are becoming more open to the usage of natural cosmetics. This can be seen in them using a variety of natural cosmetic resources and materials. This fact is further supported by the trend of environmental and health awareness. These phenomena can be found within both the producers’ and the consumers’ behavior. Our research supports that green or natural products’ role in the cosmetics industry is getting more and more pronounced. The role of science is to determine the variables suggesting the consumer to change to natural cosmetics. The primary aim of our research is to find out to what extent the characteristics of the consumption of organic foods and natural cosmetics differ. We would like to know what factors influence consumer groups when buying green products. The novelty of the analyses is mainly that consumers were ordered into clusters, based on consuming bio-foodstuffs and preferring natural cosmetics. The cluster analysis has multiple variables, namely: Consumer behavior in light of bio-product, new natural cosmetics brand, or health- and environmental awareness preferences. The data was collected using online questionnaire, exclusively in Hungary during April–May of 2018. 197 participants answered our questions. The results of descriptive statistics and the cluster analysis show that there are consumers who prefer natural cosmetics, whereas some of them buy traditional ones. A third group use both natural and ordinary cosmetics. The results suggest that on the market of cosmetic products, health and environmental awareness will be a significant trend for both producer and consumer behavior, even in the future. However, it will not necessarily follow the trends of the foodstuffs industry, as the health effect spectrum of cosmetics is far shorter. In the future, the palette of natural cosmetics will become much wider. The main reason for this will be the appearance of green cosmetics materials and environmentally friendly production methods (mostly for packaging). The consumers will also have the possibility to choose the ones that suit them the most.

scholarly journals Exploring the Differential Effect of Life Satisfaction on Low and High-Cost Pro-Environmental Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Salvador del Saz Salazar ◽  
Luis Pérez y Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
University Degree

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.

scholarly journals The Role of Faculties of Education in Increasing Sustainable Environmental Awareness of Society

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah KARATAŞ
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human And Nature ◽  
Faculties Of Education ◽  
Shed Light

Environmental problems show their negativeeffects globally today.Increasing pollutionand changing climatic conditions reveal thissituation clearly. Environmental problems,affecting the future of all living things, are connected with the incorrect relations betweenman and nature. People have become alienated from nature seeing it as an endless sourceand as a result nature has become a tool for achieving anthropocentric objectives. It canbe said that such an anthropocentric viewis the real cause of environmental problems,but human and nature harmony should be structured immediately because environmentalproblems have reached to serious position.Consequently, human being is a livingcreature and he needs healthy and reliable environment to live like all other creatures.Unless changing anthropocentric view of peopletowards nature, law and fines will also behelpless. At this point, education plays a very important mission. Because it is possible tochange people's behavior andperspectives positively through education. For the creationof awareness about the importance of protecting environment in society, faculties ofeducation as teacher traininginstitutions are of great importance. Teachers, preparinggenerations for future and so shaping the future of a society, receive their professionalqualification and requirements for becoming ateacher from faculties of education, soteacher candidates should be educated verywell. Teacher candidates from all disciplines,educated with environmental consciousness, willbe able to transfer this consciousness totheir students when they graduate. Generations,given the love of nature at an early age bytheir teachers, can be eco-friendly individuals in the future and shed light onenvironmental problems.This theoretical studyaims to put forward the role of faculties ofeducation in increasing sustainable environmental awareness of society

scholarly journals The environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behavior of future engineers in Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 00088
Author(s):  
Zakaria Ait taleb ◽  
Mounia El Farouki ◽  
Mehdi El Mejdoub
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Engineering Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Engineering Schools

During the recent decades, raising the level of environmental awareness has become one of the main social goals, which has reached a level of social and political consensus never seen before. Education can be the catalyst that changes people’s behavior regarding the environment (Zsóka et al., 2013; Schultz, 2014). Many studies have demonstrated a positive link between education level and pro-environmental behavior (Fernandez-Manzanal et al., 2007; Levine and Strube, 2012; Meyer, 2015; Monier et al., 2009). In Morocco, as in many countries of the world, human behavior towards the environment has been defective. However, the country has been taking a number of steps to protect the environment. There have been few researchers investigating the role of universities as agents contributing to environmental awareness, especially engineering schools. Engineering work has a significant effect on the world. The advent of engineers, engineering work, and engineering schooling is closely related to countries development (Downey and Lucena 2004, Downey and Lucena 2005). This paper aims to analyze the relationship between 3 factors: the sources of environmental issues, the acquired knowledge and the pro-environmental behavior to protect the environment. In order to do that, a survey of 141 engineering students has been assessed in 5 different engineering schools and the results have then shown that the sources of information is the internet and this source doesn’t lead to accountability of the individuals. Furthermore, the taken actions for the environment rarely include trash sorting, paper and meat consumption.

Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasida Ben-Zur
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Age Range ◽  
General Wellbeing

Abstract. The current study investigated the associations of psychological resources, social comparisons, and temporal comparisons with general wellbeing. The sample included 142 community participants (47.9% men; age range 23–83 years), who compared themselves with others, and with their younger selves, on eight dimensions (e.g., physical health, resilience). They also completed questionnaires assessing psychological resources of mastery and self-esteem, and three components of subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction and negative and positive affect. The main results showed that high levels of psychological resources contributed to wellbeing, with self-enhancing social and temporal comparisons moderating the effects of resources on certain wellbeing components. Specifically, under low levels of mastery or self-esteem self-enhancing social or temporal comparisons were related to either higher life satisfaction or positive affect. The results highlight the role of resources and comparisons in promoting people’s wellbeing, and suggest that self-enhancing comparisons function as cognitive coping mechanisms when psychological resources are low.

Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽  
Jan Richter
Keyword(s):  
Fear Conditioning ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Research Domain Criteria ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

The Role of Tradeoff Salience and Connectedness to the Future Self

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bartels ◽  
Oleg Urminsky ◽  
Shane Frederick
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Self
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