TY - JOUR
T1 - Adults’ pro-environmental behaviours and childhood experiences
T2 - the mediating role of nature connectedness, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge
AU - Shekari, Fatemeh
AU - Azizi, Fatemeh
AU - Ghaderi, Zahed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/2/20
Y1 - 2024/2/20
N2 - Despite childhood experiences’ significant role in the pro-environmental behaviour of adults, this issue has insufficiently been addressed within the tourism and recreation context. The current study investigates how childhood nature-based recreation experiences (CHNREs) affect adults’ pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in nature-based recreation through connectedness to nature, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge. It also explores the mediating role of psychological ownership in the relationship between connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge with adults’ PEBs in nature-based recreation. The study’s population included young domestic Iranian visitors to natural sites, and 503 online questionnaires were analyzed employing structural equation modelling AMOS-SEM. The findings showed a significant positive influence of childhood experience on adult PEBs and supported the mediating role of the two variables: connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge. Despite the significant positive impact of environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature on psychological ownership, the mediating role of this variable in the relationship between environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature with PEBs was not supported.
AB - Despite childhood experiences’ significant role in the pro-environmental behaviour of adults, this issue has insufficiently been addressed within the tourism and recreation context. The current study investigates how childhood nature-based recreation experiences (CHNREs) affect adults’ pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in nature-based recreation through connectedness to nature, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge. It also explores the mediating role of psychological ownership in the relationship between connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge with adults’ PEBs in nature-based recreation. The study’s population included young domestic Iranian visitors to natural sites, and 503 online questionnaires were analyzed employing structural equation modelling AMOS-SEM. The findings showed a significant positive influence of childhood experience on adult PEBs and supported the mediating role of the two variables: connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge. Despite the significant positive impact of environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature on psychological ownership, the mediating role of this variable in the relationship between environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature with PEBs was not supported.
KW - Childhood experiences
KW - connectedness to nature
KW - environmental knowledge
KW - Iran
KW - pro-environmental behaviour
KW - psychological ownership
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U2 - 10.1080/13683500.2024.2316859
DO - 10.1080/13683500.2024.2316859
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85185268295
SN - 1368-3500
JO - Current Issues in Tourism
JF - Current Issues in Tourism
ER -