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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Autores: Lisboa, Paulo Vítor, Gómez Román, Cristina, Vila Tojo, Sergio, Carrus, Giuseppe, Monteiro, Ana Paula
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
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/46842
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Palabra clave:Pro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligence
Pro-environmental behaviour
Adolescents
Personality
Emotional intelligence
Investigación
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spelling More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviourLisboa, Paulo VítorGómez Román, CristinaVila Tojo, SergioCarrus, GiuseppeMonteiro, Ana PaulaPro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligencePro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligenceInvestigaciónPersonality 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.ElsevierUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e MetodoloxíaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Ambientais (CRETUS)20262026-07-0120262026-07-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/46842reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Personality 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.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:minerva_____::de3768117cd7f5820ecd7482bf0025472026-06-15T12:47:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
title More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
spellingShingle More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
Lisboa, Paulo Vítor
Pro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligence
Pro-environmental behaviour
Adolescents
Personality
Emotional intelligence
Investigación
title_short More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
title_full More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
title_fullStr More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
title_full_unstemmed More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
title_sort More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lisboa, Paulo Vítor
Gómez Román, Cristina
Vila Tojo, Sergio
Carrus, Giuseppe
Monteiro, Ana Paula
author Lisboa, Paulo Vítor
author_facet Lisboa, Paulo Vítor
Gómez Román, Cristina
Vila Tojo, Sergio
Carrus, Giuseppe
Monteiro, Ana Paula
author_role author
author2 Gómez Román, Cristina
Vila Tojo, Sergio
Carrus, Giuseppe
Monteiro, Ana Paula
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Ambientais (CRETUS)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Pro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligence
Pro-environmental behaviour
Adolescents
Personality
Emotional intelligence
Investigación
topic Pro-environmental behaviourAdolescentsPersonalityEmotional intelligence
Pro-environmental behaviour
Adolescents
Personality
Emotional intelligence
Investigación
description 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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