Table 3.
Comparison between the mean scores of the German and Ecuadorian samples.
| Variables | Germany | Ecuador | t-test | 95% BCaCI | Effect size d | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SE | SD | M | SE | SD | ||||
| Nature relatedness | 2.66 | 0.02 | 0.78 | 3.69 | 0.04 | 0.83 | -24.54*** | [-1.12, -0.95] | 1.32 |
| Time spent in nature | 2.91 | 0.02 | 0.88 | 2.82 | 0.04 | 0.88 | 1.95* | [0,00, 1.18] | 0.10 |
| Egoistic EC | -0.14 | 0.02 | 0.74 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.65 | -3.53*** | [-0.20, -0.05] | 0.17 |
| Altruistic EC | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.73 | -0.13 | 0.04 | 0.71 | 6.15*** | [0.17, 0.32] | 0.33 |
| Biospheric EC | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.91 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.72 | -2.01* | [-1.61, -0.01] | 0.09 |
| ST | 0.39 | 0.01 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 0.03 | 0.62 | -2.55** | [-0.15, -0.02] | 0.14 |
| SE | -0.44 | 0.02 | 0.69 | -0.57 | 0.04 | 0.74 | 3.42** | [0.05, 0.21] | 0.19 |
EC, environmental concern; ST, self-transcendence; SE, self-enhancement. Confidence intervals based on 1,000 bootstrap samples, ∗p ≤ 0.05, ∗∗p ≤ 0.01, ∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001.