Variation in Environmentalism among University Students: Majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Predicts Environmental Concerns and Behaviors

Autor/inn/en	Arnocky, Steven; Stroink, Mirella L.
Titel	Variation in Environmentalism among University Students: Majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Predicts Environmental Concerns and Behaviors
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Education, 42 (2011) 3, S.137-151 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-8964
Schlagwörter	Outdoor Education; Cooperation; Ecology; Regression (Statistics); Recreation; Foreign Countries; College Students; Majors (Students); Surveys; Conservation (Environment); Environmental Education; Recreational Activities; Student Attitudes; Correlation; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiluftunterricht; Co-operation; Kooperation; Ökologie; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Re-creation; Erholung; Ausland; Collegestudent; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Freizeitgestaltung; Schülerverhalten; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kanada
Abstract	In a survey of Canadian university students (N = 205), the relationship between majoring in an outdoor recreation university program and environmental concern, cooperation, and behavior were examined. Stepwise linear regression indicated that enrollment in outdoor recreation was predictive of environmental behavior and ecological cooperation; and these results held independently of age and gender. We then examined the possibility that environmental concern may mediate these relationships. Inclusion of ecocentrism as a mediating variable indicated that environmental concern partially accounted for the relation between outdoor recreation and self-reported environmental behavior, and fully mediated (reduced to nonsignificance) the relationship between outdoor recreation and ecological cooperation. Results are discussed in the context of education, and more specifically experiential outdoor education as promoting environmental behavior through greater concern for the ecosystem. (Contains 2 figures and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10