Environmental benefits have become priority objectives for the management of forests, including for private forest owners in many countries. Understanding and promoting environmental-friendly private forest management requires a measure of environmental concern of forest owners and knowledge of factors that influence it. Such a measure allows to explore underlying motivations of forest owners to include environmental aspects in their forest management. This in turn helps in developing and implementing effective pro-environmental forestry policies. In this paper, we assess environmental concern in forest management of 226 non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners in Sweden. In particular, we sought to achieve a two-fold objective: a) to quantitatively explore the content and dimensionality of the environmental concern construct of forestry owners and b) to identify the association between environmental concern of forest owners and their personal values and personality traits. A principal factor analysis resulted in a two-dimensional environmental concern construct encompassing: environmental strategy and environmental orientation. Hierarchical seemingly unrelated regressions (SUREG) showed that personal values and personality traits help to explain environmental concern in forest management of NIPF owners. A better understanding of environmental concern of forest owners and its relation with individuals' attributes will help in better designing, framing and targeting of tailor-made interventions to promote environmental considerations in forest management.

环境效益已成为森林管理的优先目标，包括许多国家的私人森林所有者。了解和促进对环境友好的私有森林管理需要森林所有者对环境的关注程度以及对其影响因素的了解。这种措施可以探索森林所有者将环境因素纳入其森林管理的潜在动机。这反过来又有助于制定和实施有效的环保林业政策。在本文中，我们评估了瑞典 226 名非工业私有林 (NIPF) 所有者在森林管理中的环境问题。特别是，我们力求实现双重目标：a) 定量探索林地所有者的环境关注结构的内容和维度； b) 确定林地所有者的环境关注与其个人价值观和人格特征之间的关联。主要因素分析产生了一个二维环境关注结构，包括：环境战略和环境导向。看似不相关的分层回归（SUREG）表明，个人价值观和人格特质有助于解释 NIPF 所有者森林管理中的环境问题。更好地了解森林所有者的环境关注及其与个人属性的关系，将有助于更好地设计、制定和针对量身定制的干预措施，以促进森林管理中的环境考虑。