摘要:Environmental pollution has become a serious challenge for humanity and the environment.Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationships between the Big Five personality traits,individualism, collectivism, participant’s age, and environmental concern, and testing themoderating roles of individualism/collectivism and gender in the relationship between the Big Fivepersonality traits and environmental concern. In this quantitative study, the multi-stage clusterrandom sampling method was used to recruit a total of 1,160 respondents (614 females and 546males) from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Structural Equation Modeling proved that respondents ofhigh neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion, collectivism, and older ages were conscious ofthe environmental quality. Also, the findings showed that individualism, collectivism, and genderemerged as significant moderators in the link between the Big Five personality traits and theenvironmental concern.
关键词:Environmental concern; Big Five; individualism/collectivism.