The Impact of Environmental Education on College Students’ Low-carbon Behaviour
A Chain Mediation Model Moderated by Prosocial Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21570387 |
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| Authors | Maobao Yang (0000-0002-3523-8161, Jiujiang University), Gaofei Ren (0000-0001-5831-940X, Jiujiang University, corresponding author), Lei Guo (0000-0003-0537-7280, Jiujiang University), Лэй Гуо (0000-0001-9971-8634, Jiujiang University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Environmental Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0814-0626 • E-ISSN: 2049-775X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/aee.2025.10080 |
| OpenAlex | W4414412626 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Low-carbon behaviour is a crucial pathway to addressing current climate change and promoting sustainable economic and social development. The importance of environmental education has become a widely recognised consensus among higher education institutions. However, the mechanisms through which environmental education influences the low-carbon behaviour of the new generation of college students remain insufficiently explored. This study introduces environmental attitude and green perceived value as mediators, while prosocial behaviour is a moderator. A moderated chain mediation model is developed from new perspectives of psychological, social and environmental values, and this theoretical model is empirically tested using 759 college students in China surveyed by a questionnaire. The findings reveal that environmental education positively drives college students’ low-carbon behaviour, with environmental attitude and green perceived value playing a partial chain mediation role between environmental education and low-carbon behaviour. Additionally, prosocial behaviour positively moderates the relationships between environmental attitude, green perceived value and college students’ low-carbon behaviour, significantly moderating the mediating effect of green perceived value
Environmental education · Mediation · Moderated mediation · Prosocial behavior · Structural equation modeling · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Sustainability in Business
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