Exploring the influence of religiosity on engaging in pro-environmental behaviours for college students at Taiwan under the climate change environment

Face the increasing severity of climate change, green education provides a sound adaptation strategy. Establishing a pro-environmental behaviour is an important manner for environmental sustainability. For many environmental behaviour models, the norm is a dominant variable that affects the pro-environmental behaviour, and religion is one of the crucial variables that affect the norm. With a questionnaire survey, this paper applies statistical tests to analyze the influence of religiosity of Taiwanese college students on pro-environmental behaviour and the reasons for engaging in 11 types of pro-environmental behaviours under the climate change environment. This study reveals that the dominant reasons for college students to engage in "resource recycling" and "turn off the light not in use" are habit and environmental protection. The ANOVA tests and post-hoc Tukey HSD tests represented that religiosity has significant differences in knowledge, performance risks and psychological risks. Individuals with high religiosity have high concern on knowledge about climate change and low concern on psychological risk; non-religious individuals prefer higher performance about pro-environmental behavior.