| Title |
Predicting and Promoting Adolescents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in Different Big Five Trait Clusters / |
| Translation of Title |
Paauglių gamtai draugiško elgesio prognozavimas ir skatinimas skirtinguose Didžiojo Penketo bruožų klasteriuose. |
| Authors |
Poškus, Mykolas Simas |
| ISBN |
9789955199571 |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
148 |
| Keywords [eng] |
youth ; pro-environmental behavior ; Big Five personality trait clusters |
| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation investigates youth’s pro-environmental behaviors through a holistic personoriented perspective and adopts evolutionary psychology as a unifying metatheory for understanding and explaining behavior. The aim of the dissertation is to investigate how predictive models of pro-environmental behavior function in different groups of individuals clustered by their personality traits and how evolutionarily tailored persuasive normative stimuli affect individuals in these groups. The dissertation concludes that: the classical model of the Theory of Planned Behavior functions sufficiently well without additional expansions; individuals with different patterns of Big Five personality traits form beliefs about pro-environmental behaviors differently and therefore predictive models function differently for these clusters as well; evolutionarily tailored normative stimuli are effective in promoting pro-environmental intentions, but their effectiveness is different for individuals with different patterns of Big Five personality traits; conventional correlational approaches are not sufficient enough to fully understand the role of innate traits in pro-environmental behavior because traits do not function independently of one another. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Mykolo Romerio universitetas. |
| Type |
Doctoral thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2019 |
