title: Connectedness to Nature and to Humanity: their association and personality correlates.
abstract: People differ in the extent to which they identify with humans beyond their ingroup and with non-human living things. We refer to the former as the Connectedness to Humanity (CH) and to the latter as the Connectedness to Nature (CN). In a sample of 324 undergraduate students, CH and CN were operationalized using the Identification with All Humanity Scale (McFarland et al., 2012) and the CN Scale (Mayer and Frantz, 2004), respectively. These variables correlated moderately with each other (r = 0.44) and shared Openness to Experience and Honesty-Humility as their primary personality correlates. CN was found to play an important role in mediating the relationships between the two personality variables and some specific pro-environmental/pro-animal attitudes and ecological behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Kibeom
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brock University St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ashton
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Kayla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zachariassen
keywords: Connectedness to Nature; HEXACO; honesty–humility; identification with all humanity; openness to experience