Relationship between proenvironmental behavior and internet addiction in students: gender analysis
https://doi.org/10.18384/3033-6414-2025-3-28-40
Abstract
Aim. To examine the relationship between proenvironmental behavior and internet addiction and to complete its gender analysis.
Methodology. f 595 students participated in the study: 340 females and 255 males (mean age – 18.1±2.3). The C. Cheng Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS), adapted by V. L. Malygin and K. A. Feklisov, was used to study the degree of involvement in Internet space. The formation level of students’ proenvironmental behavior and its components was studied using the author's questionnaire, aimed at determining the features of energy-saving behavior of young men and women and the level of its “pro-environmentalism”. To analyze the value and semantic sphere of the respondents the Schwartz value questionnaire was used.
Results. According to the data obtained, both level of internet addiction among students and the value of caring for nature codependently increases. However, a deep preoccupation with Internet weakly effects on the value and meaning sphere of male students, and has nothing to do with their proenvironmental behavior. Whereas, in general, more proenvironmental women show a strengthening of ecological position simultaneously with an increase in the level of internet addiction.
Research implications. The results we obtained open a promising direction for psychology for further research on the role of the internet space in the formation of proenvironmental behavior, as well as identifying the content that can influence the transformation of the value-semantic sphere in favor of pro-environmentalism.
About the Author
E. Privalova
State University of Humanities and Social Studies
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena A. Privalova – Cand. Sci. (Psychology), Assoc. Prof., Department of Psychology and Social and Pedagogical Education
Kolomna
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