Abstract
Volunteering for nature conservation has become an important resource in solving local environmental problems of global importance. The study at hand assessed how well millennials’ global citizenship attitudes explain their behavioral intentions to engage in volunteer projects, as well as how prior experience of volunteering in environmental projects affects millennials’ global citizenship attitudes. Those who reported past participation in this type of volunteer experience were generally more inclined to partake in future environmental volunteering than those without prior experience. Likewise, for those with prior experience, global citizen factors played a greater role in intentions to experience environmental volunteering. This study makes valuable contributions to the literature surrounding nature conservation, as it illustrates that millennials’ global citizenship attitudes predict participation in environmental volunteering. This work concludes with insights concerning what programs (that provide millennials with opportunities to fulfill environmental duties associated with their global environmental citizenship) can do to provide a more valuable experience for young volunteers.
Highlights
Global environmental issues cannot be effectively addressed from the perspective of nationally-based politics [1], as governments alone cannot provide all needed interventions
The item, ‘I would like to learn more about environmental volunteering’ was removed as it loaded onto the social justice factor within the Global Citizenship Scale (GCS)
0.67 a The bold diagonal elements are the measures of average variance explained (AVE) for each factor. b Below the diagonal elements are the correlations between factors. c Above the diagonal elements are the squared correlations between factors. d All correlations were significant at p < 0.001
Summary
Global environmental issues cannot be effectively addressed from the perspective of nationally-based politics [1], as governments alone cannot provide all needed interventions. The exposure to global environmental issues results in attitudes of global citizenship and acting for the environmental cause. Despite the narrative concerning the need for greater contribution to and care for the natural environment, empirical research focused on millennials’ attitudes of global citizenship is limited. More work is needed to understand how millennials’ attitudes translate to developing behaviors that are more in tune with responsibility and care for the planet [23,24]. To contribute to the ongoing discussion of millennials and volunteer-based environmental projects, this study has been designed with the twofold purpose: (1) to understand how prior environmental volunteer experience affects the relationship between global citizenship and behavioral intention to volunteer; and (2) to determine differences between those with and without prior environmental volunteering experience
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