Table 4.
Results of regression analyses predicting nature relatedness as well as egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concern for the German and the Ecuadorian sample.
| NR | Egoistic EC | Altruistic EC | Biospheric EC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | t | β | t | β | t | β | t | |
| German sample | ||||||||
| ST | 0.37 | 17.91*** | 0.26 | 11.24*** | 0.42 | 18.98*** | 0.40 | 18.17*** |
| SE | -0.01 | -0.62 | 0.14 | 6.33*** | 0.01 | 0.53 | 0.01 | 0.43 |
| Time spent in nature | 0.34 | 16.79*** | 0.08 | 3.41*** | 0.02 | 0.97 | 0.06 | 2.90* |
| Female | 0.12 | 5.73*** | -0.02 | -0.65 | -0.01 | -0.49 | 0.00 | 0.13 |
| Adj. R2 | 0.30∗∗∗ | 0.09∗∗∗ | 0.18∗∗∗ | 0.18∗∗∗ | ||||
| N | 1,820 | 1,910 | 1,904 | 1,912 | ||||
| Ecuadorian sample | ||||||||
| ST | 0.32 | 7.15*** | 0.17 | 3.45** | 0.31 | 5.94*** | 0.25 | 5.04*** |
| SE | -0.03 | -0.58 | 0.19 | 3.74*** | -0.01 | -0.18 | -0.03 | -0.53 |
| Time spent in nature | 0.31 | 6.90*** | 0.08 | 1.55 | -0.02 | -0.41 | 0.14 | 2.93** |
| Female | -0.11 | -2.42* | -0.01 | -0.15 | 0.01 | 0.14 | -0.13 | -2.56* |
| Adj. R2 | 0.24∗∗∗ | 0.07∗∗∗ | 0.08∗∗∗ | 0.11∗∗∗ | ||||
| N | 390 | 387 | 356 | 395 | ||||
ST, self-transcendence; SE, self-enhancement; NR, nature relatedness; EC, environmental concern,∗p ≤ 0.05, ∗∗p ≤ 0.01, ∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001.