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Adults’ pro-environmental behaviours and childhood experiences: the mediating role of nature connectedness, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge

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  • Fatemeh Shekari
  • Fatemeh Azizi
  • Zahed Ghaderi

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Despite childhood experiences’ significant role in the pro-environmental behaviour of adults, this issue has insufficiently been addressed within the tourism and recreation context. The current study investigates how childhood nature-based recreation experiences (CHNREs) affect adults’ pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in nature-based recreation through connectedness to nature, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge. It also explores the mediating role of psychological ownership in the relationship between connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge with adults’ PEBs in nature-based recreation. The study’s population included young domestic Iranian visitors to natural sites, and 503 online questionnaires were analyzed employing structural equation modelling AMOS-SEM. The findings showed a significant positive influence of childhood experience on adult PEBs and supported the mediating role of the two variables: connectedness to nature and environmental knowledge. Despite the significant positive impact of environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature on psychological ownership, the mediating role of this variable in the relationship between environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature with PEBs was not supported.

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  • Fatemeh Shekari & Fatemeh Azizi & Zahed Ghaderi, 2024. "Adults’ pro-environmental behaviours and childhood experiences: the mediating role of nature connectedness, psychological ownership, and environmental knowledge," Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(22), pages 3849-3865, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:27:y:2024:i:22:p:3849-3865
    DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2024.2316859
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