Abstract
Happiness or life satisfaction tends to be the ultimate goal of human beings. It is the intention of this study to investigate the factors influencing the life satisfaction of pro-environment and non-pro-environment people. The data were collected from interviews with 320 adults, who were equally divided into pro-environment and non-pro-environment adults of at least 18 years of age and that had come to the randomly-selected shopping centers in Bangkok. The life satisfaction of the people, regardless of their environmentally-friendly attitude, was assumed to be driven by the personal characteristics of optimism and internal locus of control, and the domains of life of family, personal health, self-actualization, and material possessions, as well as the altruistic and biospheric values of being nature lovers. The results from the t-test suggested that pro-environment people are likely to be more satisfied with their lives than non-pro-environment people. Moreover, the multiple regression analysis indicated that the life satisfaction of the pro-environment people was positively influenced by the biospheric value of being a nature lover, self-actualization, and age, and was negatively influenced by education. The pro-environment people that were never married were more satisfied with their lives than those that were married. Finally, the life satisfaction of the non-pro-environment people was positively triggered by the personal characteristics of optimism and having an internal locus of control, as well as the domain of life of personal health and age.
Highlights
The ultimate goal of human-beings is to experience the happiness or life satisfaction is one of the ultimate goals of humans, and being able to live in a good-quality environment is obviously another essential goal
The values obtained from the scale items were averaged in order to create measures for those constructs
It is noteworthy that according to the mean value of altruism in the present study, both pro-environment and non-pro-environment people were seen to be altruistic rather than nature lovers, having internal locus of control, being optimist, and being satisfied with their domains of life, including family, material possessions, self-actualization, and personal health
Summary
The ultimate goal of human-beings is to experience the happiness or life satisfaction is one of the ultimate goals of humans, and being able to live in a good-quality environment is obviously another essential goal. Some have indicated that people that are environmentally friendly experience greater happiness in life and receive greater satisfaction with their lives (Kasser & Sheldon, 2002; Brown & Kasser, 2005; Xiao & Li, 2011). This study will investigate whether there are any differences between the significant determinants of life satisfaction of pro-environment and non-pro-environment people. These determinants are assumed to be the following: the personal characteristic of being optimistic and having control over one’s life, being satisfied with various aspects of one’s life, including family, personal health, self-actualization, material possessions, and the values of altruism and being lovers of nature
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