Prediction of Environmental Ethics Based on the Environmental Values and Norms

Background: The humans’ greed, the productivity of natural resources, the sense of jobbery, and capitalists and producers’ avarice, are some threats to the natural resources. Therefore, the environmental issue has been considered by many scholars. The issue of environmental ethics has been raised in order to solve these problems by the experts. Hence, the present article aimed to highlight the relationship between values, norms and environmental ethics, as well as predict the environmental ethics based on environmental values and norms. Method: The method of this study was descriptive correlational. The population of this study was citizens of Kermanshah City in 2018; 736 people were selected by cluster sampling method. Data collection was carried out using the environmental value, environmental norms and environmental ethics questionnaires. Data were analyzed by SPSS-23 software in two sections of the descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and correlation) and inferential statistics (regression). Results: Data analysis indicated that there was a significant relationship between the value variables and environmental norms with environmental ethics at the level 0.01. Environmental values had 50% and environmental norms had 11% ability to predict the environmental ethics. Conclusion: Environmental values and norms had a direct relationship with the environmental ethics of citizens. Therefore, changes in the individuals ‘values and environmental norms would increase or decrease the citizens' environmental ethics.