The development of children’s environmental attitude and behavior

By Siegmar Otto, G. W. Evans, M. Moon, Florian G. Kaiser. Global Environmental Change, 2019

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Abstract Environmental attitude and behavior are at the roots of a sustainable future, yet little is known about their developmental origins in early childhood. This longitudinal study is the first to examine how children’s environmental attitude and behavior develop throughout childhood (ages 7 to 18, N = 118). Environmental attitude and behavior form around the age of 7, increase until the age of 10, level off until the age of 14, and then decline again. Environmental behavior develops from childhood to early adolescence and starts consolidating from age 10 onwards, whereas environmental attitude remains in flux at least through early adulthood.

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

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• Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis (2020, background): “Most recently, a longitudinal study examining developmental change in children's environmental attitudes and behavior between the ages of 7 and 18 (Otto et al., 2019) mirrored previous cross-sectional findings.”