Longitudinal relationships between eco-emotions and pro-environmental behaviors among young people
(2025) International Conference on Environmental Psychology — Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (15.June.2025)
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- One goal of Environmental Education (EE) is to promote pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs), which helps mitigate climate change (Stevenson, 2007). However, few studies investigate its impacts on PEBs and existing results suggests small effects (Van De Wetering et al., 2022). Eco-emotions could be a lever but it’s understanding is limited. First, actual literature lacks studies measuring joint effects of several emotions on different PEBs. Second, most studies are cross-sectional. Therefore, it is unkown whether eco-emotions influence PEBs, PEBs impacts eco-emotions or if they have reciprocal effects. This research investigates specificity and directions of the relations between several eco-emotions and dimensions of PEBs of young people. Graduate students from different study fields were invited to participate to an online survey during one of their courses. Eco-emotions are measured with 19 items (ex.: angry, sad, optimistic…) and dimensions of PEBs through 35 items on a large variety of behaviors from private and public sphere (mobility, food, activism, social behaviors…). This survey includes three measurement points separated by intervals of several months. The first phase was completed by 1,333 participants in September-October 2024. Of the 565 participants who agreed to be contacted by email and were invited to take part in the second phase in February 2025, 260 responded to the questionnaire. The third phase occurred in May and collected 243 responses. Linear regression analyses were used as a first step to demonstrate how eco-emotions are directly linked to dimensions of PEBs (only between time 1 and time 2). Then, the very preliminary results based on cross-lagged panel model analyses with random intercepts are presented, testing the longitudinal relationships between eco-emotions and dimensions of PEBs.
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Davreux, Z., & Galand, B. (2025). Longitudinal relationships between eco-emotions and pro-environmental behaviors among young people. International Conference on Environmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/247912