impact of environmental education on green behavior

impact of environmental education on green behavior

1. Article Impact of Environmental Moral Education on Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Do Psychological Empowerment and Islamic Religiosity Matter? By Abida Begum College of Marxism North East Forestry University, Harbin

2. Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Literature, Theory and Hypotheses Formulation Methodology Results Discussions Limitations and Future Directions Conclusions References

3. Abstract In light of increasing concerns about global environmental problems, environmental moral education is assumed to have a significant influence on pro-environmental behaviour of students. Recently, several higher education institutes have acknowledged the importance of integrating sustainability into educational curriculum to have a focused and explicit impact on society. The current study investigates the relationship between environmental moral education and pro-environmental behaviour while taking 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. The data were collected from 429 university students with a cross-sectional approach. The data were analyzed using “structural equation modelling” and “PROCESS” analytical techniques. The results of the study were consistent with the predicted conceptual model that is the relationship of environmental moral education was positively related to pro-environmental behaviour. Furthermore, psychological empowerment partially mediated the aforementioned relationship, while the Islamic religiosity moderates 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.