Perceived vulnerability to disease predicts environmental attitudes

PROKOP, Pavol a Milan KUBIATKO. Perceived vulnerability to disease predicts environmental attitudes. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education. 2014, roč. 10, č. 1, s. 3-11. ISSN 1305-8215.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Perceived vulnerability to disease predicts environmental attitudes

Autoři

PROKOP, Pavol (703 Slovensko) a Milan KUBIATKO (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education, 2014, 1305-8215

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50300 5.3 Education

Stát vydavatele

Turecko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.016

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14410/14:00075551

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

UT WoS

000335382100001

Klíčová slova anglicky

animals; behavioural immune system; environmental attitudes; perceived vulnerability to diseases

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

Investigating predictors of environmental attitudes may bring valuable benefits in terms of improving public awareness about biodiversity degradation and increased pro-environmental behaviour. Here we used an evolutionary approach to study environmental attitudes based on disease-threat model. We hypothesized that people vulnerable to diseases may ultimately protect themselves by increasing pro-environmental efforts. Indeed, school children who perceived themselves to be vulnerable to diseases had better pro-environmental attitudes than their less disease vulnerable counterparts. Disease sensitive children showed greater beliefs to myths about owls and cuckoos, but myths did not correlate with environmental attitudes. Children from rural areas and girls showed greater environmental concerns than males and children from cities. Only scientistic attitudes toward owls showed correlations with environmental attitudes which suggests that attitudes toward animals show no strong associations with environmental concerns as was implicitly suggested in previous studies. Overall, our study showed that an evolutionary approach can be applied to investigate the nature of inter-personal differences in environmental attitudes in humans.