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Article

Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being

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Department of Educational Science, University of Roma Tre, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
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Department of Human Science, Italian University Line, 50122 Firenze, Italy
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Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
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Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4407; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084407
Submission received: 10 February 2021 / Revised: 6 April 2021 / Accepted: 13 April 2021 / Published: 15 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Environmental Beliefs)

Abstract

The environmental psychological literature suggested that three different value orientations (egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric) are relevant for understanding environmental beliefs and intentions. We surveyed 365 Italian adults of different ages (range 18–87) to examine whether the egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric value orientations can lead to personal and/or family related well-being. Additionally, it is examined whether the perception of presence and accessibility of two types of environmental resources (natural and urbanistic) related to ecosystem services can moderate the relation between value orientations and personal and family well-being. Results of moderation analyses showed that people with high biospheric values felt themselves as more satisfied if they perceived high and medium (but not low) presence or accessibility of natural resources in their environment, while people with high egoistic values perceived their family more satisfied if they perceived the high and medium (but not low) presence of good infrastructures in their environment of living. No significant moderation model emerged considering the participants’ altruistic values. The implications for environmental beliefs and well-being are discussed.
Keywords: value orientations; ecosystem service resources; natural and infrastructural resource; personal well-being; family well-being value orientations; ecosystem service resources; natural and infrastructural resource; personal well-being; family well-being

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Maricchiolo, F.; Mosca, O.; Paolini, D.; Marino, D. Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4407. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084407

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Maricchiolo F, Mosca O, Paolini D, Marino D. Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being. Sustainability. 2021; 13(8):4407. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084407

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Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Oriana Mosca, Daniele Paolini, and Davide Marino. 2021. "Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being" Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4407. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084407

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Maricchiolo, F., Mosca, O., Paolini, D., & Marino, D. (2021). Feeling Good in the Place We Live: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Environmental Resources in the Relationship between Values and Personal and Family Well-Being. Sustainability, 13(8), 4407. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084407

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