The influence of the family, the school, and the group on the environmental attitudes of European students

By R. Duarte, José-Julián Escario, M. Sanagustín. 2017

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The attitudes of young people arise from an intense interaction with their social groups of reference, and in this work we examine the extent to which this background conditions the individual environmental attitudes of the young. Using data provided by the PISA 2006 survey for the European Union, we test for the influence of the family, the characteristics of the school, and the social interactions or school peer group on attitudes toward the environment. The existence of social interactions, as well as the important role of family characteristics and school activities, are confirmed. The results allow us to emphasize the importance of the social context of the adolescent, and the need to take this into account as a channel that amplifies the influence of specific environmental education strategies.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Sociology and Political Science

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4. P. Sancho
5. Gabriele Prati
6. J. A. Corraliza
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Citations in the corpus

• Normative Influences on Adolescents’ Self-Reported Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Role of Parents and Friends (2019, background): “For instance, adolescents’ environmentalism may be influenced by their peer group’s environmentalism both within their class (Duarte et al., 2017; Gotschi et al., 2010) and outside the school environment (e.”
• The interplay among environmental attitudes, pro-environmental behavior, social identity, and pro-environmental institutional climate. A longitudinal study (2017, background): “…the challenge of climate change, social identity and pro-environmental attitudes can be seen as valuable outcomes in their own right (e.g. Shephard et al. 2014; Duarte, Escario, and Sanagustín 2015; Green, Kalvaitis, and Worster 2015; Izadpanahi, Elkadi, and Tucker 2015; Williams and Chawla 2015).”