[OANNES Foro] The relationship between affective connections to animals and proenvironmental behaviors

[Mario Cabrejos]

Conservation Biology

 <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1523-1739/accepted>
Accepted Article (Accepted, unedited articles published online and citable.
The final edited and typeset version of record will appear in future.)

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12780


 


The relationship between affective connections to animals and
proenvironmental behaviors

Alejandro Grajal1,*, Jerry F. Luebke1, Susan Clayton2, Lisa-Anne DeGregoria
Kelly1, Bryan T. Karazsia2, Carol D. Saunders3, Jennifer Matiasek1, Ricardo
Stanoss1,6, Susan R. Goldman4 and Michael E. Mann5

1 Chicago Zoological Society, Center for Conservation Leadership,
Brookfield, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 College of Wooster, Psychology Dept.,
Wooster, Ohio, USA 3 Antioch University New England, Dept. of Environmental
Studies, Keene, New Hampshire, USA 4 University of Illinois at Chicago,
Learning Sciences Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA 5 Pennsylvania
State University, Earth System Science Center, University Park,
Pennsylvania, USA 6 Present address: Smithsonian Conservation Biology
Institute, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, Front Royal, VA, USA.
*email:  <mailto:Grajal en zoo.org> Grajal en zoo.org

 


Abstract


The global biodiversity crisis requires an engaged citizenry that provides
collective support for public policies and recognizes the consequences of
personal consumption decisions. Understanding the factors that affect
personal engagement in pro-environmental behaviors is essential for the
development of actionable conservation solutions. Zoos and aquariums may be
some of the only places for many people to explore their relations with wild
animals and pro-environmental behaviors. Using a moderated-mediation
analysis of a survey of U.S. zoo and aquarium visitors (N = 3,588), we
explored the relationship between the sense of affective connection with
animals and self-reported engagement in climate change pro-environmental
behaviors, and how this relationship is affected by certainty that climate
change is happening, level of concern about climate change, and perceptions
of effectiveness in personally addressing climate change. We found a
significant, directional relationship between affective sense of connection
with animals and self-reported pro-environmental behaviors. Political
inclination within the conservative to liberal spectrum was not found to
moderate the relationship. We conclude that a personal sense of connection
to animals may provide a foundation for educational and communication
strategies to enhance involvement in pro-environmental actions.

 



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