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The ontogenesis of committed action for nature: aetiological factors, environmental education, and intergenerational transmission
No full textxtensive research has focused on the antecedents of pro-environmental behaviours, finding various associated variables, such as values, awareness, concern and the feeling of connectedness to nature. Those factors seem traceable to four broader levels of analysis, including the individual's social context, the different sets of experiences in nature, and the presence and availability of natural spaces. In order to have a deeper understanding of the processes that bring people to care and commit to nature, it is necessary to get a complete picture of the environmentalists' stories, considering the timing and the life trajectories. Previous research indicated that childhood is the time when it is crucial to promote ecological values, knowledge and awareness. In this sense, Environmental Education programmes are crucial for boosting sustainable worldviews. Recent studies have also indicated that children following educational programmes inspire parents at home, becoming active socialising agents by using information and insights received through external sources. That is in line with evidence suggesting that socialisation is a lifelong process, and it does not stop in adulthood. However, there is a paucity of research on the transmission pattern of pro-environmental values and behaviours between parents and children, and how this process is carried on still needs to be clarified. In this direction, the current work aims to answer three main questions within three research studies: a) How, within the framework of the predictor variables of environmental action, do they arrange and evolve over an individual's lifetime? b) How does Environmental Education affect students' ecological worldviews and attitudes? and c) How are biospheric values learned and transmitted between parents and children? The first study investigated the developmental trajectory of the factors influencing the willingness to act for nature by analysing four interconnected levels of analysis (i.e., social, pragmatic, contextual and psychological). The second study focuses on the pragmatic dimension by evaluating an Environmental Education programme, and the third study focuses on the social dimension by exploring the bidirectional transmission of biospheric values between parents and children
Environmental Engagement: how early experiences and activities in nature influence pro-environmental motivation
No full textInjunctive and descriptive norms regarding Corporate Environmental Responsibility influence workers' attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviors.
No full textThe Normative Influence in Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Creating a Sense of Organizational Belonging in Promoting Pro-Environmental Attitudes
No full textOrganizations play a pivotal role in ecological transition and the promotion of pro-environmental behaviors. Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) encompasses voluntary actions undertaken by companies to minimize environmental impact during production and promote these efforts through effective internal and external communication. Grounded in the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct, this research explores how injunctive and descriptive norms related to CER contribute to creating a collective sense of efficacy and commitment to organizational environmental issues, positively influencing attitudes toward both simple (e.g., recycling, sustainable mobility) and collectively challenging behaviors (e.g., acceptance of the company's new energy technologies). Experimental Study 1 involved 439 Italian workers from public and private organizations, utilizing a 2x2 between-subject design to manipulate the intensity of injunctive and descriptive norms. Analyses revealed significant main effects of both norms on collective efficacy and affective commitment but not on pro-environmental attitudes. No interaction effects emerged. To analyze the relationships between the variables, correlational Study 2, with 371 Italian workers, employed a path analysis model. Injunctive and descriptive norms served as independent variables, while collective efficacy and affective commitment acted as sequential mediators. Attitudes toward simple or challenging pro-environmental behaviors were dependent variables. No direct effects of norms, both injunctive and descriptive, on attitudes, were observed, confirming the result from Study 1; instead, the relationship was mediated by collective efficacy and subsequent affective commitment. In both studies, the organization's emphasis on environmental issues did not directly impact workers' favorable attitudes toward pro-environmental matters but indirectly fostered it via a sense of belonging and community within workgroups. This underscores that an organization can establish environmental standards to cultivate a green organizational culture, shaping corresponding attitudes among employees
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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