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How Green Self Image is Related to Subjective Well-Being: Pro-Environmental Values as a Social Norm.
- Source :
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Ecological Economics . Jul2018, Vol. 149, p105-119. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Recent literature has found that individuals holding a greener self-image display higher levels of life satisfaction. We extend the single-country setting of that research to a transnational perspective and explore whether a relationship exists between green self-image (GSI) and life satisfaction (LS), both European-wide and at the national level. In order to explain differences in the GSI-LS relationship across nations and time, we study the role of pro-environmental values as a shared social norm. We find a significantly positive GSI-LS relationship in a pool of 35 European countries and in the majority of individual countries. In addition, we show that the well-being benefit of holding a green self-image is greater in societies that display more unanimity with respect to pro-environmental attitudes. Invoking the notion of social norms as shared agreements about what is appropriate and inappropriate, we take the latter finding to indicate that part of the well-being benefit from holding pro-environmental values derives from conformity to a social norm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09218009
- Volume :
- 149
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Ecological Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 129120968
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.03.002