AUTHOR=Lee Kibeom , Ashton Michael C. , Choi Julie , Zachariassen Kayla 

TITLE=Connectedness to Nature and to Humanity: their association and personality correlates

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2015

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01003

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01003

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=People differ in the extent to which they identify with humans beyond their ingroup and with non-human living things.  We refer to the former as the Connectedness to Humanity (CH) and to the latter as the Connectedness to Nature (CN).  In a sample of 324 undergraduate students, CH and CN were operationalized using the Identification with All Humanity Scale (McFarland, Webb, & Brown, 2012) and the Connectedness to Nature Scale (Mayer & Frantz, 2004), respectively.  These variables correlated moderately with each other (r = .44) and shared Openness to Experience and Honesty-Humility as their primary personality correlates.  CN was found to play an important role in mediating the relationships between the two personality variables and some specific pro-environmental/pro-animal attitudes and ecological behaviors.