Abstract

OLIVOS-JARA, Pablo; ARAGONES, Juan-Ignacio  and  NAVARRO-CARRASCAL, Oscar. Environmental education: itineraries in nature and their relationship with connectedness, environmental concerns and behavior. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.45, n.3, pp.501-511. ISSN 0120-0534.  https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.v45i3.1490.

Abstract Albeit there is research about basic concepts involved in environmental education, enough evidence is lacking about the experiences of contact with natural environments, so common in this field, and even less about his relationship with Connectedness with Nature, Environmental Concerns and Pro-environmental Behavior. We report results of two studies; the first involving 286 psychology students who completed a questionnaire measuring Connectedness, Concerns, Behavior and Socio-demographic and Sociocultural variables. In the second study, 40 students participated in an excursion across a natural environment, completing pre and post measures of Connectedness. The main results show that the concerns are related to demographic and socio-cultural variables such as gender, political ideology and religiosity, but not to Connectedness with Nature, which only increases after contact with a natural environment. We discuss the implications of the findings for environmental education.

Keywords : connectedness with nature; environmental identity; environmental education; egobiocentrism; contact with nature.

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