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Publication Date: 2015
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Transforming Environmental Knowledge into Behavior: The Mediating Role of Environmental Emotions
Carmi, Nurit; Arnon, Sara; Orion, Nir
Journal of Environmental Education, v46 n3 p183-201 2015
The present study was based on the premise that environmental knowledge can drive environmental behavior only if it arouses environmental emotions. Using a structural equations modeling approach, we tested the direct, as well as the indirect (mediated) effects of knowledge on behavior and assessed the mediating role of environmental emotions. We found that knowledge is an important but distal variable, whose significant effect is fully mediated by emotions. The high explanatory power and good fit indices of the model supported and validated the important role of emotions in the learning process.
Descriptors: Role, Behavior Change, Emotional Response, Learning Processes, Goodness of Fit, Knowledge Level, Environment, Structural Equation Models, Correlation, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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