Empathy and environmental concern: examining the mediating role of nature relatedness

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dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Amanda
dc.contributor.supervisorGifford, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-12T21:46:07Z
dc.date.available2012-12-12T21:46:07Z
dc.date.copyright2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012-12-12
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explored the relation between dispositional empathy and environmental concern by examining the mediating role of nature relatedness. Undergraduate students (n = 125) from the University of Victoria completed a series of questionnaires measuring dispositional empathy, three types of environmental concern, nature relatedness, proenvironmental behaviour and social desirability. Bootstrapping procedures were used to evaluate the meditational model. Perspective taking (a cognitive facet of empathy) appears to relate to biospheric environmental concern indirectly through nature relatedness. Empathic concern (an affective facet of empathy) predicted altruistic environmental concern, but this effect was not mediated by nature relatedness. Proenvironmental behaviour was only related to biospheric concern. These results suggest that the relation between empathy and environmental concern is multifaceted and that proenvironmental behaviour is not consistently an outcome. Possible explanations for this pattern of results are explored. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and suggestions are made to guide future research.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4345
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectEmpathyen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Concernen_US
dc.subjectNature Relatednessen_US
dc.subjectProenvironmental Behaviouren_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Psychologyen_US
dc.titleEmpathy and environmental concern: examining the mediating role of nature relatednessen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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