Sustainable development (SD) is crucial to maintaining and preserving the planet we live on. The new paradigm of circular economy (CE) corresponds to the sustainable development goals and includes environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The United Nations has set quality education and the search for good health and well-being in the long term as tools for achieving SD. This study aims to identify the predictors of connectedness to nature in children and adolescents using knowledge of CE, pro-environmental behavior, beliefs about caring for the environment, and satisfaction with life as possible predictive variables. The exploration of the influence of these predictors on connectedness to nature, taking sex and age as covariates, was performed using a binary logistic regression model. We found that low scores on pro-environmental behavior, satisfaction with life, knowledge of waste management and CE, and beliefs about environmental behavior were related to a low degree of connectedness to nature. Thus, our findings suggest that the educational system must promote not only the assimilation of knowledge and beliefs but also satisfaction with life given its relationship with connectedness to nature.

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循环经济知识、环保行为、对生活的满意度和信仰是否预示着农村儿童和青少年与自然的联系？试点研究

可持续发展 (SD) 对于维护和保护我们赖以生存的地球至关重要。循环经济 (CE) 的新范式与可持续发展目标相对应，包括环境、经济和社会维度。联合国已将优质教育和长期寻求良好的健康和福祉作为实现可持续发展的工具。本研究旨在利用 CE 知识、亲环境行为、爱护环境的信念和对生活的满意度作为可能的预测变量，确定儿童和青少年与自然联系的预测因素。使用二元逻辑回归模型探索这些预测因子对自然联系的影响，将性别和年龄作为协变量。我们发现亲环境行为得分低，对生活的满意度、废物管理和 CE 的知识以及对环境行为的信念与与自然的联系程度较低有关。因此，我们的研究结果表明，鉴于生活与自然的联系，教育系统不仅必须促进知识和信仰的同化，而且还必须促进对生活的满意度。