Impact of Environmental Moral Education on Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Do Psychological Empowerment and Islamic Religiosity Matter?

Abida Begum, Liu Jingwei, Maqsood Haider, Muhammad Maroof Ajmal, Salim Khan and Heesup Han
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Abida Begum: School of Marxism, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Liu Jingwei: School of Marxism, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Maqsood Haider: Department of Management Sciences, FATA University, FR Kohat 25000, Pakistan
Muhammad Maroof Ajmal: University Institute of Management Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46000, Pakistan
Salim Khan: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Heesup Han: College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: In light of increasing concerns about global environmental problems, environmental moral education is assumed to have a significant influence on the pro-environmental behaviour of students. Within the past decade, several higher education institutes have acknowledged the importance of integrating sustainability into the educational curriculum to have a focused and explicit impact on society. The current study investigated the relationship between environmental moral education and pro-environmental behaviour while drawing upon insights from the conservation of resource theory. The relationship among the aforementioned variables was studied for the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating effect of Islamic religiosity. Data were collected from 429 university students with a cross-sectional approach. The data were analysed using “structural equation modelling” and “PROCESS” analytical techniques. The results of the study followed the predicted conceptual model, that is, environmental moral education was positively related to pro-environmental behaviour. Furthermore, psychological empowerment partially mediated the aforementioned relationship, while Islamic religiosity moderated the relationships between environmental moral education and pro-environmental behaviour as well as between environmental moral education and psychological empowerment. These findings reinforce the importance of environmental moral education and Islamic religiosity in understanding the Muslim student’s ecological behaviours.

Keywords: environmental moral education; psychological empowerment; Islamic religiosity; pro-environmental behaviour; Pakistani university students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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