Sports Psychology

Sports Psychology

Developing a Model of Environmentally Responsible Behaviors with Growth and Social Responsibility in Athletes: Investigating Mediating Role of Moral Intelligence

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Hasan Shafaei 1
Ahdiyeh Yadolahzadeh 2
Sheida Ranjbari 3
Hamed Salari 4
1 . PhD, Department of Physical Rehabilitation, Massage and Health-Improving Physical Culture Named after I. M. Sarkizov-Serazini RSUFKSMiT, 105122 Moscow, Russia.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Department of Physical Education, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran.
10.48308/mbsp.2023.104822.1294
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the current research was to develop a model of environmentally responsible behavior, focusing on growth and social responsibility with the mediating role of moral intelligence in athletes.
Methods: The research utilized a descriptive-correlation research method based on structural equations. The statistical population consisted of all professional athletes who were members of national teams and premier leagues in various disciplines in 2021. Information was gathered using responsible environmental behavior questionnaires by Milfont et al. (2010), social responsibility questionnaires by Goff (1987), social growth scales by Weitzman (1990), and moral intelligence questionnaires by Link et al. (2011). Data analysis was conducted through Pearson correlation tests and structural equation analysis using SPSS-21 and AMOS-24 software’s.
Results: The results indicated a positive and significant relationship between environmentally responsible behaviors and moral intelligence (r=0.65), social growth (r=0.52), and social responsibility (r=0.63, P>0.01). The structural equation results demonstrated that environmentally responsible behaviors, mediated by moral intelligence, have a significant positive impact on the growth and social responsibility of athletes.
Conclusions: It is recommended that officials from the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Environmental Protection Organization prioritize the dimensions and activities of environmentally responsible behaviors. They should also collaborate with prominent athletes and psychologists to cultivate a culture of nature protection, considering influential psychological variables such as moral intelligence.
 
Keywords
Environmental Behavior
Social Development
Social Responsibility
Moral Intelligence
  1. Corti JF, Raimundi MJ, Celsi I, Alvarez O, Castillo I. “The Moderating Effect of Athletes’ Personal Values on the Relationship between Coaches’ Leadership Behaviors and the Personal and Social Skills of Young Basketball Players”, Sustainability, 2023;15(5), 4554. 3390/su15054554
  2. Holt NL, Deal CJ, Pankow K. “Positive youth development through sport”, Handbook of sport psychology, 2020;429-446. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1002/9781119568124.ch20
  3. Damon W. “What is positive youth development?”, The Annals of the American Academy of political and social science, 2004;591(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203260092
  4. Palheta CE, Ciampolini V, Santos F, Ibáñez SJ, Nascimento JV, Milistetd M. “Challenges in Promoting Positive Youth Development through Sport”, Sustainability, 2022;14(19), 12316. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141912316
  5. Trendafilova S, Babiak K, Heinze K. “Corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability: Why professional sport is greening the playing field”, Sport management review, 2013;16(3), 298-313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2012.12.006
  6. Żelazna A, Bojar M, Bojar E. "Corporate Social Responsibility towards the Environment in Lublin Region, Poland: A comparative study of 2009 and 2019", Sustainability, 2020;12(11): 4463. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114463
  7. Randrianasolo AA, Semenov AV. "Synergy versus trade-off: the influence of national philanthropic environment and industry on the relationship between research and development and corporate social responsibility", Journal of International Marketing, 2022;30(1): 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069031X211054507
  8. Fukuda K, Ouchida Y. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the environment: Does CSR increase emissions? Energy Economics, 2020;92, 104933.‏ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104933
  9. Panwar R, Han X, Hansen E. "A demographic examination of societal views regarding corporate social responsibility in the US forest products industry", Forest Policy and Economics, 2010;12(2): 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2009.09.003 ‏
  10. Singh K, Girdhar T. “TATA Steel India: Corporate Social Responsibility Case Study Project”, A Casebook of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards Business Sustainability, 2022;85-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5719-1_6
  11. VandenBos GR. “APA dictionary of psychology”, American Psychological Association. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14646-000
  12. Are F, Shaffer A. “Family emotion expressiveness mediates the relations between maternal emotion regulation and child emotion regulation”, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2016;47, 708-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-015-0605-4
  13. Hu BY, Johnson GK, Teo T, Wu Z. “Relationship between screen time and Chinese children’s cognitive and social development”, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020;34(2), 183-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2019.1702600
  14. Stern PC. "New environmental theories: toward a coherent theory of environmentally significant behavior", Journal of social issues, 2000;56(3): 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-4537.00175
  15. Makarov D. "The Synergic Anthropology as an Interdisciplinary Paradigm. Reflections on the Ontology of an Interface", Voprosy filosofii, 2019;(2): 61-71. https://doi.org/10.31857/S004287440003874-6
  16. Kerimov K, Kerimov T. "Nancy, Descartes, and continuous creation", KronoScope, 2019;19(1): 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341427
  17. Kerimov TK, Krasavin IV. "Ontology of the multitude and heterarchy of the common”. ‏ http://dx.doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-0644
  18. Soopramanien D, Daryanto A, Song Z. "Urban residents' environmental citizenship behaviour: The roles of place attachment, social norms and perceived environmental responsibility", Cities, 2023;132, 104097. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104097
  19. Wu D, Shen C, Wang E, Hou Y, Yang J. "Impact of the perceived authenticity of heritage sites on subjective well-being: A study of the mediating role of place attachment and satisfaction", Sustainability, 2019;11(21): 6148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11216148
  20. Yang L, Hu X, Lee HM, Zhang Y. "The Impacts of Ecotourists’ Perceived Authenticity and Perceived Values on Their Behaviors: Evidence from Huangshan World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site", Sustainability, 2023;15(2): 1551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15021551 ‏
  21. Sivek DJ, Hungerford H. "Predictors of responsible behavior in members of three Wisconsin conservation organizations", The Journal of environmental education, 1990;21(2): 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.1990.9941929
  22. Wu D, Li K, Ma J, Wang E, Zhu Y. "How does tourist experience affect environmentally responsible behavior? ", Sustainability, 2022;14(2): 924.‏ https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020924
  23. Kaiser FG, Wilson M. "Goal-directed conservation behavior: The specific composition of a general performance", Personality and individual differences, 2004;36(7): 1531-1544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2003.06.003
  24. Galston WA, Galston WA. "Liberal purposes: Goods, virtues, and diversity in the liberal state", Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172462
  25. Schuler D. "Pieces of civic intelligence: towards a capacities framework", E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014;11(5): 518-529. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/elea.2014.11.5.518
  26. Majidi SA, Kouchakzadeh S, Safarmohammadi H, Leyli EK. "Assessment of hospital nurses’ moral intelligence: a cross-sectional study in Guilan province, North of Iran", Shiraz E-Medical Journal, 2018;19(10). [In Persian]. https://doi.org/10.5812/semj.62299
  27. Tanner C, Christen M. "Moral intelligence–A framework for understanding moral competences", Empirically informed ethics: Morality between facts and norms, 2014;119-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-87908
  28. Pettijohn C, Pettijohn L, Taylor AJ. "Salesperson perceptions of ethical behaviors: Their influence on job satisfaction and turnover intentions", Journal of Business Ethics, 2008;78, 547-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9367-7
  29. Cheng TM, Wu, HC, Huang LM. “The influence of place attachment on the relationship between destination attractiveness and environmentally responsible behavior for island tourism in Penghu, Taiwan”, Journal of Sustainable tourism, 2013;21(8), 1166-1187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2012.750329
  30. Häyrinen L, Pynnönen S. “A review of the concepts and measurements for connection to nature and environmentally responsible behaviour—A call for research on human-forest relationships”, Current Forestry Reports, 2020;6, 323-338. http://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-020-00131-6
  31. Borden RJ, Schettino AP. “Determinants of environmentally responsible behavior”, The Journal of Environmental Education, 1979; 10(4), 35-39. 1080/00958964.1979.9941906
  32. Lee TH, Jan FH, Yang CC. “Conceptualizing and measuring environmentally responsible behaviors from the perspective of community-based tourists”, Tourism Management, 2013;36, 454-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2012.09.012
  33. Rickinson M.“Learners and learning in environmental education: A critical review of the evidence” Environmental education research, 2001;7(3), 207-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504620120065230
  34. Cheng TM, Wu HC. “How do environmental knowledge, environmental sensitivity, and place attachment affect environmentally responsible behavior? An integrated approach for sustainable island tourism”, Journal of Sustainable tourism, 2015;23(4), 557-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2014.965177
  35. Huang PS, Shih LH. “Effective environmental management through environmental knowledge management”, International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, 2009;6, 35-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03326058
  36. Gao Y, Zou L, Morrison AM, Wu F. “Do situations influence the environmentally responsible behaviors of national park visitors? Survey from Shennongjia National Park, Hubei Province, China”, Land, 2021;10(9), 891. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10090891
  37. Pakzad MA, Hellatabadi Farahani ME, Ghafouri S, Khosravitanak M. "Social Development of Students: The Predictive Role of Moral Intelligence and School Culture, Bioethics Journal, 2022;12(37): 1-27. In Persian 22037/bioeth.v12i37.38118
  38. Su L, Huang S, Huang J. Effects of Destination Social Responsibility and Tourism Impacts on Residents’ Support for Tourism and Perceived Quality of Life. J. Hosp. Tour. Res. 2018;42, 1039–1057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1096348016671395
  39. Kline RB. "Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (3. Baskı) ", New York, NY: Guilford, 2011;14, 1497-1513. 1080/10705511.2012.687667
  40. Abbas Zadeh M, Bani-Fatemeh H, Alizadeh Aghdam MB, Alavi L. "The intervention effect of environmentally responsible attitude on the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior", Journal of Applied Sociology, 2015;27(2): 61-80. In Persian https://doi.org/10.22108/jas.2016.20491
  41. Ghovati A, Ahovan M, Shahamat Dehsorkh F, Farnoosh M. “The Effectiveness of Emotion Schema Therapy on Rumination and the Extreme accountability of patients with Obsessive-compulsive disorder”, Journal of Psychological Studies, 2021;16(4), 7-24. In Persian 22051/psy.2021.31187.2216
  42. Luo W, Tang P, Jiang L, Su MM. "Influencing mechanism of tourist social responsibility awareness on environmentally responsible behavior", Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020;271, 122565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122565
  43. Walters G, Tacon R. "Corporate social responsibility in sport: Stakeholder management in the UK football industry", Journal of Management & Organization, 2010;16(4): 566-586. https://doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2010.16.4.566
  44. Kim HR, Yoon SY. How to Help Crowded Destinations: Tourist Anger vs. Sympathy and Role of Destination Social Responsibility. Sustainability 2020;12, 2358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062358

 

Sports Psychology
Volume 15, Issue 2
2023
Pages 221-235

  • Receive Date 12 October 2021
  • Revise Date 05 May 2022
  • Accept Date 28 May 2022