Appreciation of nature and appreciation of environmental protection: How stable are these attitudes and which comes first?

Introduction. – Attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection are two separate but correlated attitudes. Little is known about the two attitudes’ stability/volatility over time, despite the practical value of such knowledge. Objectives & method. – Using longitudinal survey data from 251 adults in a cross-lagged structural equation model, we assessed the degree of spontaneous (i.e., unprompted) change in the two attitudes. We also considered whether such change could provide evidence regarding causal direction; causation could go in either of two directions between the two attitudes, or it could even be bi-directional. Results. – We corroborated the substantive connection between attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection; however, the absence of change in the attitudes despite the passage of two years disallows reliable statements about causal direction. Conclusion. – It is possible to protect the environment by encouraging appreciation of nature, but change in attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection may be difficult to achieve with mature individuals.

The relative strength of nurture and nature.

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The psychological origin and the nature of religion /

"Magic and religion": p. 48-79.

A calm inquiry into all the objections made to the educational provisions of the factory bill, exhibiting the nature, tendency and object of the new principles by which the dissenting bodies stand opposed thereto.

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The book of the fly; a nature study of the house-fly and its kin, the fly plague and a cure.

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Morse's manual of art : a self teacher in all branches of deocrative art, embracing almost every variety of painting and drawing, on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, etc. : illustrated /

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Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari, où l'on traite des antiquités qui s'y trouvent encore : des principaux phénomènes que la nature y offre; des costume des habitans, & de quelques usages /

Includes index, v. 4, p. [118]-124.

Natural history of Selborne & observations on nature; with text & new letters of the Buckland ed.;

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The biosocial nature of man. -

Includes bibliographical references.

The conception of disease : its history, its versions, and its nature /

Includes index.

Alcohol safety program progress. Volume 1: nature and scope of the national program.

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The present state of Tipperary, as regards agrarian outrages : their nature, origin, and increase, considered, with suggestions for remedial measures : respectfully submitted to the right hon. Lord Eliot, M.P., Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant /

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Precipitation of the sulphides of nickel & cobalt in an alkaline tartrate solution : together with an investigation into the nature of certain tartrates of these metals.

Reprinted from the Journal of the American chemical society, v. 22, no. 8, Ag. 1900.

The micrographic dictionary : a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects /

vols 1 and 2.