Abstract

This study examines the relationships between childhood participation in appreciative, consumptive, and abusive types of outdoor activities and the connection to nature, environmental attitudes, and four types of pro-environmental behaviors in high school students. A questionnaire was given to 140 racially mixed, suburban, largely college-bound Texas high school students. The major results indicate a positive correlation between appreciative types of childhood outdoor activities and both connection to nature and environmental citizenship behaviors. Appreciative outdoor activities in childhood were found to predict 10.7% of the variance in connectedness to nature and 12.3% of the variance in adolescent citizenship behaviors. Connectedness to nature was found to predict 8.9% of adolescent citizenship behaviors and was also responsible for 3.8% of the variation in the conservation behaviors of the participants. Results also indicated that those individuals who participated in more consumptive outdoor activities in childhood were slightly less likely to maintain a pro-environmental attitude.

摘要

这项研究研究了高中学生在童年时期参与有鉴赏力，消耗性和虐待性的户外活动与与自然，环境态度以及四种类型的环保行为之间的关系。对140名种族混合的，郊区的，主要是大学生活的德克萨斯高中学生进行了问卷调查。主要结果表明，儿童的户外活动的欣赏类型与与自然和环境公民行为的联系之间呈正相关。发现儿童时期的有感激的户外活动可以预测与自然的联系的变化的10.7％和青少年公民行为的变化的12.3％。发现与大自然的联系可以预测8.9％的青少年公民行为，并且还与3。参与者保护行为变化的8％。结果还表明，那些在童年时参加更多消费性户外活动的人保持环保态度的可能性稍低。