| Title: | Education for future? Investigating the role of education in explaining active green engagement : a multilevel moderated mediation analysis |
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| Authors: | ID Penker, Matthias (Author)
ID Kirbiš, Andrej (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Penker_Matthias_2025.pdf (1,60 MB)
MD5: 08319591F18F70BEEE59CF3698BC7BF8
 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100608
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | politic sphere behaviour, environmental activism, education, moderated mediation analyses, multilevel model |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 08.11.2024 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 07.04.2025 |
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| Publication date: | 08.04.2025 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-11 |
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| Numbering: | 9, št. članka 100608 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-92521  |
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| UDC: | 316.334:502/504 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2666-1888 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 232099843 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100608 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 16.04.2025 |
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| Views: | 175 |
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| Downloads: | 26 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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