Pro-Environmental Behaviors and Well-Being in Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Place Attachment

Maria Giuseppina Bartolo (), Rocco Servidio, Anna Lisa Palermiti, Maria Rosaria Nappa and Angela Costabile
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Maria Giuseppina Bartolo: Department of Culture, Education and Society, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Rocco Servidio: Department of Culture, Education and Society, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Anna Lisa Palermiti: Department of Culture, Education and Society, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Maria Rosaria Nappa: Department of Systems Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy
Angela Costabile: Department of Culture, Education and Society, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: Adolescents represent the future generation, so it is important to pay attention to behaviors that involve them as actors in social activities and constitute the expression of an adequate growth path. Engaging in pro-environmental behaviors leads adolescents to do something good for themselves, for their own community, and for the place in which they live, and this type of conduct increases their levels of well-being and place attachment. This study examines the association between pro-environmental behavior and personal and social well-being in a sample of 1925 adolescents aged 14 to 20 years. Structural equation analyses showed a direct positive effect of pro-environmental behavior on personal and social well-being as well as place attachment. The latter partially mediated the relationship between pro-environmental behaviors and personal and social well-being. This study is significant in that it provides new data on how pro-environmental behaviors enhance adolescents’ personal and social well-being by potentially ensuring long-term benefits, thereby suggesting that it is important to stimulate, motivate, and recommend these kinds of actions.

Keywords: pro-environmental behaviors; well-being; place attachment; adolescence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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