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Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Multidimensional Approach

Prati, Alberto; Krekel, Christian; (2021) Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Multidimensional Approach. In: Cloutie, Scott and El-Sayed, Sara and Ross, Allison and Weaver, Melanie, (eds.) Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

In recent years, policy-makers have taken steps towards acknowledging the importance of mental states when appraising citizens’ wellbeing on the one side and the urgent challenge of shifting towards a more ecological society on the other. Previous work has established an encouraging positive link between these two seemingly unrelated notions, subjective wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour. This chapter offers an overview of the progress made to date and underlines that both subjective wellbeing and proenvironmental behaviour can be structured according to different dimensions that interact in various ways. In this chapter, we empirically investigate some dimensions of both subjective wellbeing and proenvironmental behaviour that have been overlooked so far. To do so, we use newly available data collected by the French National Statistical Institute and study seven dimensions of subjective wellbeing as well as attributions of political responsibility and prioritisation about green policies. In doing so, we move beyond the often unidimensional paradigm which associates subjective wellbeing with life satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviour with consumption. Our multidimensional approach offers new insights into which dimension of subjective wellbeing is most predictive of which pro-environmental behaviour and how happy and unhappy citizens have different attitudes about environmental policies.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Linking Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Multidimensional Approach
ISBN: 3030895599
ISBN-13: 978-3-030-89558-7
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89559-4_11
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89559-4_11
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198981
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