More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
Personality traits have been associated with adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour, but findings remain inconsistent. This variability suggests that the strength to which personality traits are associated to pro-environmental behaviour may be influenced by other psychological variables. This...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) |
| Repositorio: | Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:minerva_____::de3768117cd7f5820ecd7482bf002547 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10347/46842 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Pro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligence Pro-environmental behaviour Adolescents Personality Emotional intelligence Investigación |
| Sumario: | Personality traits have been associated with adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour, but findings remain inconsistent. This variability suggests that the strength to which personality traits are associated to pro-environmental behaviour may be influenced by other psychological variables. This study explored whether emotional intelligence played a moderator role in the relationship between personality traits and pro-environmental behaviour in a sample of 1855 Portuguese adolescents (Mage = 14.52 years, SDage = 1.76 years, 49,2% female). Results showed that all personality traits, except neuroticism, were significantly positively associated with pro-environmental behaviour. Furthermore, emotional intelligence, defined as an individual's ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions both in themselves and others, moderated the relationship between extraversion and agreeableness and pro-environmental behaviour, such that higher emotional intelligence strengthened the positive association between these traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour. These findings underscore the role of personality in shaping adolescents' pro-environmental tendencies and suggest that emotional intelligence may act as a useful psychological resource to enhance pro-environmental behaviour, particularly among more extraverted and agreeable youth. |
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