Do Pro-environmental Behaviors and Awareness Contribute to Improve Subjective Well-being?

Marta Suárez-Varela, Jorge Guardiola () and Francisco González-Gómez ()
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Jorge Guardiola: Universidad de Granada
Francisco González-Gómez: Universidad de Granada

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2016, vol. 11, issue 2, No 6, 429-444

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we study the influence of both environmental awareness and behaviors on subjective well-being (SWB). By using ordered logit techniques in a sample from Granada, a city in southern Spain, we find that concern about the environment and voluntary work actions to preserve it are relevant for SWB. When both are combined, namely when a person is concerned and volunteers, the influence on SWB is greater. These results introduce the SWB dimension in the knowledge-concern-action paradox, which states that even if the individual is concerned about the environment, this concern does not always translate into personal action to preserve it. Actions such as habits related to water saving inside the household are not significant in explaining SWB, but using devices that save water increases it. In summary, our results suggest that actions and awareness have either a positive or no significant influence on SWB, but never a negative influence.

Keywords: Subjective well-being; Environmental behaviors; Environmental awareness; Knowledge-concern-action paradox (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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