dc.contributor.author	Geiger, Sonja Maria
dc.contributor.author	Geiger, Mattis
dc.contributor.author	Wilhelm, Oliver
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-20T15:29:32Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-20T15:29:32Z
dc.date.issued	2019-04-02
dc.date.updated	2019-10-29T21:02:06Z
dc.description.abstract	Environmental knowledge has been established as a behavior-distal, but necessary antecedent of pro-environmental behavior. The magnitude of its effect is difficult to estimate due to methodological deficits and variability of measures proposed in the literature. This paper addresses these methodological issues with an updated, comprehensive and objective test of environmental knowledge spanning a broad variety of current environment related topics. In a multivariate study (n = 214), latent data modeling was employed to explore the internal factor structure of environmental knowledge, its relationship with general knowledge and explanatory power on pro-environmental behavior. We tested competing factor models and uncovered a general factor of environmental knowledge. The main novel finding of the study concerns its relationship with general knowledge. Employing an established test of general knowledge to measure crystallized intelligence revealed a near perfect relationship between environmental and general knowledge. This general knowledge (including the environmental domain) accounted for 7% of the variance in environmentally significant behavior. Age, additionally to acquired education, emerged as a common predictor for both general knowledge and environmentally significant behavior. We discuss the consequences of the strong relation between general and environmental knowledge and provide a possible explanation for the positive age-environmental conservation relationship reported in the literature.	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1664-1078
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10364
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9323
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychologie	de
dc.subject.other	environmental knowledge	en
dc.subject.other	general knowledge	en
dc.subject.other	domain-specificity	en
dc.subject.other	environmentally significant behavior	en
dc.subject.other	structural equation modeling	en
dc.title	Environment-Specific vs. General Knowledge and Their Role in Pro-environmental Behavior	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber	718	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi	10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00718	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Frontiers in Psychology	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername	Frontiers Media S.A.	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Lausanne	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	10	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	free	en
tub.affiliation	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre::FG Arbeitslehre / Ökonomie und Nachhaltiger Konsum	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften	de
tub.affiliation.group	FG Arbeitslehre / Ökonomie und Nachhaltiger Konsum	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Inst. Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre	de
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en

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