The impact of temporal discounting on education level and sustainable behaviour
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2024-07-10
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This study aimed to determine whether temporal discounting affects the relation between level of education and sustainable behaviour. Five underlying determinants of sustainable behaviour were used for this analysis: car travel, plane travel, meat consumption, water saving and energy conservation. Reliability tests predicted to use these indicators as isolated behaviours, and not combined as one systematic factor for sustainable behaviour. Moderation and mediation analysis were executed to answer the question whether temporal discounting affects the relation between education level and each sustainable behaviour proxy. Results indicated that moderation analysis results in one isolated sustainable behavioural factor to be affected if an alpha of .10 were to be accepted, namely the relation between plane travel and educational level. Mediation analysis has proven temporal discounting to have no significant effect on the relation between educational level and the aforementioned determinants of sustainable behaviour. Hence, I indicate that the influence of temporal discounting on the relation between level of education and the isolated sustainable behaviours is insufficient. However, due to some limitations, it remains statistically difficult to conclude that temporal discounting is of significance in the relation between education level and sustainable behaviour.
Keywords: temporal discounting, education, sustainable behaviour, moderation analyses, mediation analyses
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen