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  • Environmental Science
  • Behavioral Science

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  • Climate change poses a significant threat, necessitating research into individual differences in proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors.
  • Previous studies show links between personality traits and environmental attitudes, but often aggregate attitudes and focus on broad personality domains.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between lower-order personality traits (aspects of the Big Five) and various proenvironmental attitudes.
  • To determine if specific personality aspects offer more consistent predictions of environmental attitudes than broader domains.

Main Methods:

  • Examined 10 lower-order aspects of the Big Five personality traits.
  • Assessed eight distinct proenvironmental attitudes.
  • Utilized three convenience samples from the United States (N=1234, 1000) and the United Kingdom (N=538).

Main Results:

  • All five broad personality domains were associated with at least one proenvironmental attitude.
  • Seven out of eight proenvironmental attitudes were predictable by personality traits across all samples.
  • The Openness aspect of Openness to Experience was a more consistent predictor than the Intellect aspect; other trait aspects showed little benefit when differentiated.

Conclusions:

  • Fine-grained research into individual differences in proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors is necessary.
  • Specific personality aspects, particularly within Openness to Experience, are important predictors of environmental attitudes.