Table 4 Classification items of significant life experiences.
Serial number | Classification item of significant life experiences | Descriptions |
|---|---|---|
E1 | Exposure to nature | Experience of exposure to natural landscapes in rural/urban life in childhood/adulthood |
E2 | Family | Influences from behaviours/values of parents and family members |
E3 | Organisation | Experience in collective childhood activities, such as summer camps; Participation in environmental protection groups during school/social life; Participation in activities of social groups and their interpersonal networks |
E4 | Negative experiences in the place of residence | Emotional experience brought by the destruction, degradation, or disappearance of the environment of a hometown or long-term residence |
E5 | Environmental concerns | Emotional experience of anxiety and disgust for global environmental disasters, environmental pollution, and related issues |
E6 | Education | Formal school education (from primary school to university), including courses, outdoor teaching, internships, teachers’ words and deeds, and school spirit of attaching importance to environmental protection; Non-formal education from social institutions and public groups (such as museums, national parks, young pioneers, youth leagues) |
E7 | Occupation | Occupation with a low negative impact on the environment; Work requiring environmentally friendly attitude and behaviours |
E8 | Mass media | Emotional experience and environmental actions caused by watching TV programmes, videos, and movies, reading newspapers and magazines |
E9 | Significant others | Emotional experience and environmental actions are caused by the works, words, deeds, and ideas of historical heroes, authors, social idols, and leaders. |
E10 | Social justice | Angry feelings at polluters who violate social justice (such as illegal discharge of wastewater, waste gas, and garbage burning) or developers (such as improper projects based on interests); Angry feelings at the unfair environmental treatment of individuals, families, communities or vulnerable groups; the idea that everyone has equal environmental rights |
