20.500.12556/DKUM-92521 Education for future? Investigating the role of education in explaining active green engagement a multilevel moderated mediation analysis Despite extensive literature emphasizing the role of education in promoting engagement in environmental movements, international comparative research has yet to fully elucidate the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Using data from 44,100 respondents across 28 countries in the ISSP's fourth environmental module, we demonstrate that individuals' willingness to pay for environmental protection (WTP) partially mediates the relationship between education and environmental public sphere behavior (PSB). Furthermore, drawing on the Quality of Government literature, we show that the link between education and WTP is significantly stronger in countries with low corruption levels, a pattern that extends to the indirect effect of education on PSB. Although the magnitude of this effect is reduced, the direct positive association between education and PSB persists even in high-corruption contexts. These findings underscore the transnational importance of education in shaping environmentally significant attitudes and behaviors, as well as the crucial role of corruption in moderating how education translates into both WTP and PSB. politic sphere behaviour environmental activism education moderated mediation analyses multilevel model politična participacija okoljski aktivizem izobrazba moderirana mediacija večnivojska analiza true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-04-16 10:38:38 2025-04-16 10:38:39 2025-08-22 13:30:09 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-11 št. članka 100608 9 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2024-11-08 2025-04-07 2025-04-08 316.334:502/504 232099843 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100608 2666-1888 RAZ_Penker_Matthias_2025.pdf RAZ_Penker_Matthias_2025.pdf 1 08319591F18F70BEEE59CF3698BC7BF8 ec415cdd278fa0d9e36f26b47e789ba95a3ebf372ffc2e712c6264cec0fbac6e 13f46ff3-1aa0-11f0-ba2f-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=190339 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100608 0 32ad4ca1-1a9e-11f0-ba2f-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=190337 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0