Testing Common Knowledge: Are Northern Europeans and Millennials More Concerned about the Environment?
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Title: | Testing Common Knowledge: Are Northern Europeans and Millennials More Concerned about the Environment? |
Author: | Gómez Román, Cristina Lima, Luisa Seoane Pesqueira, María Gloria Alzate García, Mónica Dono Martín, Marcos Sabucedo Cameselle, José Manuel |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Interdisciplinar de Tecnoloxías Ambientais (CRETUS) |
Subject: | Europe | Generation | Pro-environmental attitudes | Pro-environmental behavior | Personal norms | |
Date of Issue: | 2021 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Citation: | Gómez-Román, C.; Lima, M.L.; Seoane, G.; Alzate, M.; Dono, M.; Sabucedo, J.-M. Testing Common Knowledge: Are Northern Europeans and Millennials More Concerned about the Environment? Sustainability 2021, 13, 45 |
Abstract: | This study explores whether there are differences in several environmental dimensions, when the European Region and Generation cohort are considered. In doing so, this study compares millennials in North and South Europe with members of Generation X in three environmental dimensions: attitudes, personal norms, and behavior. Using data from the European Social Survey (n = 6.216), the researchers tested the hypothesis that Northern Europeans and millennials have more pro-environmental standing than southerners and Generation Xers. The findings challenge the common belief that millennials are more committed to being environmentally conscious, showing that many millennials do not feel responsible for their climate footprint, nor do they behave in a way that shows more concern than previous generations to improve their environmental performance. Furthermore, contrary to expectations, Northern European participants are not the most committed, in all environmental dimensions, compared to Southern Europeans |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010045 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24194 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su13010045 |
E-ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Atribución 4.0 Internacional |
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