scholarly journals Going Green (and Not Being Just More Pro-Social): Do Attitude and Personality Specifically Influence Pro-Environmental Behavior?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3560
Author(s):  
Jana S. Kesenheimer ◽  
Tobias Greitemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Prize Money ◽  
Partial Correlations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions

The current research examines the extent to which attitudes and personality traits are predictive of pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Concretely, we tested the relationship between pro-environmental attitudes, HEXACO personality traits, and actual PEB (donating potential prize money to a pro-environmental organization; N = 257). Additionally, we controlled for the influence of helping behavior (donating to a pro-social organization) by addressing whether attitudes and personality have a distinct impact on PEB or whether people are more likely to engage in PEB because they act more pro-socially in general. Analyses included correlations, multiple linear regressions, mediations, and partial correlations. Pro-environmental attitude had the most robust association with PEB and mediated the influence of openness to experiences and honesty–humility on PEB. Importantly, the relationship of pro-environmental attitudes and personality (openness to experiences and honesty–humility) with PEB was unaffected by the participant’s helping behavior, suggesting that pro-environmental people mainly care about the environment and are not necessarily more pro-social in general.

A Study on Environmental Attitude, Environmental Behavior and Environment Issues of Living Place: The Questionnaire Survey for some Dwellers in Shenzhen

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 290-296
Author(s):  
Xiang Yang Wu ◽  
Wei Jia Lu
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Firstly, the study took the environmental attitude, environmental behavior of the city dwellers and the environment issues in living place for the target, and designed the questionnaire with the actual situation in Shenzhen. Secondly, the questionnaires returned back were analyzed in details. According to the conclusion from the statistical analysis for the questionnaires' data, the relationship of the environmental attitude and environmental behavior of the city dwellers was explored and the environmental issues were found out in the end.

The impact of manager’s personality traits on project success through affective professional commitment: the moderating role of organizational project management maturity system

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqsa Ameer ◽  
Farah Naz ◽  
Bushra Gul Taj ◽  
Iqra Ameer
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Experimental Proof ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of conscientiousness and extraversion personality traits on project success. The relationship is mediated by affective professional commitment, whilst the relationship between personality traits and project success is moderated by organizational project management maturity. Design/methodology/approach The deductive approach is used to achieve the objectives of this study. Data were collected through a purposive sampling technique from 250 respondents with the help of questionnaires from information technology sectors. The structural equation modelling (SEM) in partial least squares-SEM and SPSS is used to analyse the data and to examine the hypothesis. Findings The outcomes demonstrate the partial mediating impact of affective professional commitment between the relationship of conscientiousness and extraversion personalities with project success. Additionally, it proves the moderating effects of project management maturity between the relationship of conscientiousness and extraversion personalities with project success. Practical implications This study reflects that employee personality appears to be a reliable indicator of how an employee is faithful to his profession. This faithfulness or duty decides the employee’s execution in terms of offering a successful project. Thus, achieving employee commitment needs to be done by completing the project successfully by the organizations in the presence of project management maturity systems. Originality/value It is the first study of its kind to provide experimental proof of the impact of a manager’s personality traits on project success in the presence of affective professional commitment (mediator) and organizational project management maturity (moderator).

scholarly journals A RISK PERCEPTION MODEL OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
Shyang-Chyuan Fang ◽  
Tai-Yi Yu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
University Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Environmental Value

This study establishes a behavioral model for university students by utilizing the theories of planned behavior and value-belief-norm, and proposes key latent variables for risk perception toward climate change to establish a structural equation model. Partial least squares analyses and three indicators are utilized to test the reliability, validity, and goodness-of-fit of the model. This study establishes a mixed model with formative and reflective indicators, and assesses both environmental concern and personality traits as formative indicators. Using standardized path coefficients, eight out of 10 paths demonstrate statistical significance, indicating that environmental value and environmental attitudes influence environmental behavior. Three of the five included personality traits (e.g., agreeableness, extraversion, and openness) demonstrate a positive correlation with environmental behavior and environmental attributes. Individuals’ risk perception positively influences their environmental value, environmental attitudes, and environmental behavior with respect to climate change. Keywords: climate change, environmental behavior, partial least square, personality trait.

Prediction of the voluntary intake of grass silages by beef cattle. 1. Linear regression analyses

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Rook ◽  
M. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Dry Matter ◽  
Volatile Fatty Acids ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
Ammonia Nitrogen ◽  
Dry Matter Intake ◽  
Digestible Organic Matter ◽  
Voluntary Intake ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions

ABSTRACTData on individually recorded silage dry-matter intake (SDMI), concentrate dry-matter intake (CDMI) and live weight of steers and data on silage composition including toluene dry matter (TDM), pH, total nitrogen (N), ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N), volatile fatty acids (VFAs), digestible organic matter in the dry matter (DOMD) and neutral-detergent fibre (NDF) obtained from experiments conducted at three sites were used to obtain simple and multiple linear regressions of SDMI on other variables.Live weight accounted for a high proportion of the variation in intake but this effect could generally be removed by scaling intake by live weight raised to the power of 0·75 (M0·75). CDMI was the most important factor affecting scaled intake in mixed diets. TDM, NH,-N and VFAs all had important effects on SDMI. The relationship of SDMI with TDM was curvilinear suggesting that there is little to be gained in intake terms from wilting to TDM above 250 g/kg. The effect of NH3-N appeared to be related more to its correlation with VFAs than with any other nitrogenous constituent while the VFAs appeared to have a direct effect on SDMI. The effects of N and pH on SDMI were generally small. DOMD and NDF had relatively little effect on SDMI. Significant differences in intercepts between sites were found for most relationships although common slopes were often found.

Association of collateral status and ischemic core growth in patients with acute ischemic stroke

Neurology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000011258
Author(s):  
Longting Lin ◽  
Jianhong Yang ◽  
Chushuang Chen ◽  
Huiqiao Tian ◽  
Andrew Bivard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Acute Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Ct Perfusion ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Vessel Occlusion ◽  
Ischemic Core ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions

ObjectiveTo test the hypothesis that acute ischemic patients with poorer collaterals would have faster ischemic core growth, we included 2 cohorts in the study, cohort 1 of 342 patients for derivation and cohort 2 of 414 patients for validation purpose.MethodsAcute ischemic stroke patients with large vessel occlusion were included. Core growth rate was calculated by the following equation: Core growth rate = Acute core volume on CTP/Time from stroke onset to CTP. Collateral status was assessed by the ratio of severe hypoperfusion volume within the hypoperfusion region of CTP. The CTP collateral index was categorized in tertiles; for each tertile, core growth rate was summarized as median and inter-quartile range. Simple linear regressions were then performed to measure the predictive power of CTP collateral index in core growth rate.ResultsFor patients allocated to good collateral on CT perfusion (tertile 1 of collateral index), moderate collateral (tertile 2), and poor collateral (tertile 3), the median core growth rate was 2.93 mL/h (1.10–7.94), 8.65 mL/h (4.53–18.13), and 25.41 mL/h (12.83–45.07) respectively. Increments in the collateral index by 1% resulted in an increase of core growth by 0.57 mL/h (coefficient = 0.57, 95% confidence interval = [0.46, 0.68], p < 0.001). The relationship of core growth and CTP collateral index was validated in cohort 2. An increment in collateral index by 1% resulted in an increase of core growth by 0.59 mL/h (coefficient = 0.59 [0.48–0.71], p < 0.001) in cohort 2.ConclusionCollateral status is a major determinant of ischemic core growth.

A Multivariate Analysis of Personality and Product Use

1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Sparks ◽  
W. T. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Canonical Analysis ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Product Use ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A canonical analysis of the relationship of personality traits to product use patterns suggests that the association is significant and complex, involving probable interactions among traits.

scholarly journals ONE-TWO PUNCH OF HIGH WAGES AND EMPOWERING PRACTICES FOR MAINTAINING CARE NETWORKS IN NURSING HOMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S559-S560
Author(s):  
Katherine Kennedy ◽  
John R Bowblis ◽  
Katherine M Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Retention Rate ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Nursing Assistant ◽  
Certified Nursing Assistant ◽  
Facility Level ◽  
High Level ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions

Abstract Stabilizing certified nursing assistant (CNA) employment is necessary for maintaining care networks and providing high quality of care for nursing home (NH) residents. This study’s objective was to examine the relationship of high wages and empowerment practices on CNA retention. We used the 2015 Ohio Biennial Survey to construct a facility-level dataset of 547 NHs and estimated multivariable linear regressions. NHs that provided both high wages and high empowerment were associated with a 12.95 percentage-point improvement in the CNA retention rate (SE = 4.53, t-value = 2.86, p = 0.0045). High wages and a high empowerment score did not have significant effects individually (p &gt; .05). Retention rates were similar between NHs that lacked high wages and scored low on the empowerment scale, and NHs that provided one at a high level but not the other. Implications for better retaining CNAs require multiple empowerment practices combined with high hourly wages.

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