Gender Differences in Environmental Concern: Revisiting the Institutional Trust Hypothesis in the USA

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-37

  Xiao, Chenyang ^a   McCright, Aaron M ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental concern; gender; institutional trust; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENDER DISPARITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912051383     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916513491571     Document Type: Article

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