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Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle

Sustainability in well-being embodies the interconnecting course of how various systems influence each other. The more strongly individuals subscribe to values beyond their immediate interests, that is, prosocial, collectivistic and biospheric values, the more likely they are to engage in environ...

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Main Authors: Abu Bakar, Aisyah, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Hitam, Mizan
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Language:English
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Published: Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2020
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/1/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/2/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours_SCOPUS.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.803012021-01-18T03:51:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/ Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle Abu Bakar, Aisyah Mohamed Osman, Mariana Hitam, Mizan H Social Sciences (General) Sustainability in well-being embodies the interconnecting course of how various systems influence each other. The more strongly individuals subscribe to values beyond their immediate interests, that is, prosocial, collectivistic and biospheric values, the more likely they are to engage in environmental behaviour. Issue: Existing research has limited evidence on specific values of Malaysian’s personality and lifestyle (PL) that have significant impact on attitude and proenvironmental behaviour (AP). Purpose: This paper aims to verify the statistical predictability of AP based on PL. Approach: Multiple Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression were carried out to assess linear associations and parameters of linear equations to predict AP components based on PL items. Findings: AP components were moderately predictable by some of the PL items. Specifically, ‘Urging media to raise environmental awareness’ and ‘being mindful about environmental destruction’ were the two strongest predictors of AP. Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2020-04-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/1/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/2/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours_SCOPUS.pdf Abu Bakar, Aisyah and Mohamed Osman, Mariana and Hitam, Mizan (2020) Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle. Planning Malaysia, 18 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1672-6215 E-ISSN 0128-0945 http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/704/533
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English
topic H Social Sciences (General)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Abu Bakar, Aisyah
Mohamed Osman, Mariana
Hitam, Mizan
Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
description Sustainability in well-being embodies the interconnecting course of how various systems influence each other. The more strongly individuals subscribe to values beyond their immediate interests, that is, prosocial, collectivistic and biospheric values, the more likely they are to engage in environmental behaviour. Issue: Existing research has limited evidence on specific values of Malaysian’s personality and lifestyle (PL) that have significant impact on attitude and proenvironmental behaviour (AP). Purpose: This paper aims to verify the statistical predictability of AP based on PL. Approach: Multiple Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression were carried out to assess linear associations and parameters of linear equations to predict AP components based on PL items. Findings: AP components were moderately predictable by some of the PL items. Specifically, ‘Urging media to raise environmental awareness’ and ‘being mindful about environmental destruction’ were the two strongest predictors of AP.
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author Abu Bakar, Aisyah
Mohamed Osman, Mariana
Hitam, Mizan
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Mohamed Osman, Mariana
Hitam, Mizan
author_sort Abu Bakar, Aisyah
title Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
title_short Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
title_full Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
title_fullStr Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
title_full_unstemmed Attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
title_sort attitudes and pro-environmental behaviours: determining factor of personality and lifestyle
publisher Malaysian Institute Of Planners
publishDate 2020
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/1/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/2/80301_Attitudes%20and%20pro-environmental%20behaviours_SCOPUS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/80301/
http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/704/533
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