Happiness and pro-environmental consumption behaviors

Understanding Attitudes and Pro-Environmental Behaviors in a Chilean Community

Environmental protection and restoration are some of the major challenges faced by our society. To address this problem, it is fundamental to understand pro-environmental behaviors in the population, as well as the factors that determine them. There are, however, very few studies conducted in Latin America that are focused in understanding the environmental behavior of its citizens. The main go...

Environmental Awareness and Happiness

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between an individual’s environmental attitudes (or awareness) and well-being. We use an ordered probit model to examine the relationship between individual measures of subjective well-being and environmental attitudes regarding ozone pollution and species extinction. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey we find a negative correlation...

Consumption and Happiness: Alternative Approaches

Greening organizations through leaders’ influence on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors

Climate change is a serious global issue that poses many risks to environmental and human systems. Although human activity is cited as the main cause of climate change and organizations significantly contribute to climate change, research that investigates workplace pro-environmental behaviors remains scarce. We develop and test a model that links environmentally-specific transformational leade...

Analysis of the Effect of Social Factors on Pro-Environmental Behaviors (Case Study: Citizens of Gorgan)

The purpose of this study was to investigate social factors affecting environmental behavior among citizens of Gorgan city. This descriptive-analytic study was done by cross sectional survey on 400 citizens of Gorgan city in 1396. The standard information collection tool is standard. A multi-stage random sampling method was used for sampling. The collected data were analyzed by parametric test ...