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Investigating the Relationship of Wellbeing with Sustainable Values, Attitudes and Behaviour

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The current study investigated the relationship of wellbeing with personal values, attitudes and behaviour. It was found that individuals’ with sustainable values and attitudes had higher levels of wellbeing. These relationships were found to be especially strong when wellbeing was disaggregated into its four related but distinct elements, namely, personal feeling, personal functioning, interpersonal feeling and interpersonal functioning.

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  1. British Columbia Institute of Technology, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC, V5G 3H2, Canada

    Mark Giltrow

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Giltrow, M. (2015). Investigating the Relationship of Wellbeing with Sustainable Values, Attitudes and Behaviour. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08837-2_7

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