Cited by 94Environmental Education and SustainabilityCultural Differences and ValuesEnvironmental Philosophy and Ethics

The Relationship between Value Types and Environmental Behaviour in Four Countries: Universalism, Benevolence, Conformity and Biospheric Values Revisited

Open access
Katz-Gerro, Tally, Greenspan, Itay, Handy, Femida, Lee, Hoon-Young·2017·Environmental Values

Abstract

Using the social-psychological literature on the antecedents of environmental behaviour and comparative data from Germany, India, Israel and South Korea, we test four value types that correspond with environmental behaviour. Our cross-national context represents varying social, economic, cultural and environmental configurations, giving credence to the effects of values. The authors collected survey data among students on a variety of environmental behaviours and on questions that comprise Schwartz's value scale. The results show similarities between the countries in the effect of biospheric values and differences in the effects of the other values tested. We also find that biospheric value is the most important value type for explaining environmental behaviour, and that biospheric values, universalism and benevolence – three key values that we analyse – have different effects on environmental behaviour, and therefore should be treated separately rather than in a unified self-transcendence value orientation. We finally demonstrate the importance of conformity in the analysis of environmental behaviour. Our conclusions point to the importance of further exploring the mechanism that links values and environmental behaviour while contextualising it in different national and cultural settings.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3197/096327117x14847335385599

Cites

0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Biospheric values are associated with pro-environmental behaviours.

    “biospheric values (such as being respectful towards and protective of nature) are associated with pro-environmental behaviours (Katz-Gerro et al ., 2017).”

    From Acceptance and commitment therapy as an approach for working with climate distress (2024) · cites this paper as Katz-Gerro et al., 2017

    The available passages are bibliographic records (labelled Abstract, with no page number). The title identifies biospheric values and environmental behaviour as topics, but no passage states whether they are associated. Searches for the claimed association and for biospheric values as predictors returned only the same records. (LLM, conf=0.72)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Values that are self-transcendent and protective of nature are associated with pro-environmental behaviours.

    “towards and protective of nature) are associated with pro-environmental behaviours (Katz-Gerro et al ., 2017).”

    From Acceptance and commitment therapy as an approach for working with climate distress (2024) · cites this paper as Katz-Gerro et al ., 2017

    The indexed passages identify a study of value types and environmental behaviour (title and Abstract metadata), but none states whether self-transcendent or nature-protective values are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. Searches for those terms and for findings about universalism and biospheric values returned no passage reporting the claimed association. (LLM, conf=0.72)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Katz-Gerro, T., Greenspan, I., Handy, F., & Lee, H.-Y.
Affiliations
  • Department of Sociology University of Haifa Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Kyung Hee University (KR)
Venue
Environmental Values
Published
2017-04
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
223-249
ISSN
  • 0963-2719 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-7015
OpenAlex
W2593000088
Cited by
94
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3
FWCI
16.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • Environmental Values (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Keywords
value types, environmental behaviour, biospheric values, universalism, benevolence, conformity, self-transcendence, cross-national comparison, cultural differences, students

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review