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• Environmentalism of university students in relation to their materialism, life satisfaction, views on politics and pandemic

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  Ferenc Mónus

  Tamás Béres

  Flórián Sipos

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  Recently, an increasing focus has been made on studying environmental problems and the
  related social phenomena. Understanding the environmentalism and its influencing factors
  in the case of higher education students can greatly help the preparation and identification
  of sustainability policies and educational practices in higher education institutions. In this study, we investigated environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of
  students at 17 Hungarian universities as a function of a number of hypothesized influencing
  factors. These included materialistic values, life satisfaction, political views, and views on the
  Covid-19 pandemic. According to our results, these were all related to environmentalism. More
  environmentally conscious students were less materialistic, less right-wing in their political
  views, more satisfied with their lives, and also differed in their views on pandemic issues. Beside
  a weaker impact of environmentalism and political views, life satisfaction was largely influenced
  by the relative financial situation perceived by respondents.