ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
How campus restorative environments foster pro-environmental behavior among university students: the chain mediating roles of awe and nature connectedness.
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Background: Cultivating young people's pro-environmental behavior has become a critical concern for sustainable development. Campus landscapes, as natural-cultural composite environments that university students encounter regularly, may relate to their ecological emotions and environmental behavior in important ways. However, the underlying psychological mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. Objective: Drawing on Attention Restoration Theory and self-transcendent emotion theory, this study constructs and tests a chain mediation model in which campus landscape scene experience is associated with pro-environmental behavior sequentially through awe and nature connectedness. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted with 768 university students at Hezhou University, a national AAA-rated scenic campus in Guangxi, China, from September to December 2025. Measures comprised the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS-11), the Awe Short Measure (Awe-SM), the Nature Relatedness scale (NR-6), and the Pro-environmental Behavior Scale (PEBS). Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 for descriptive statistics, common method bias tests, reliability and validity tests, structural equation modeling, and bootstrap mediation analysis, with gender, academic year, and frequency of nature contact included as control variables. Results: (1) Campus landscape scene experience was positively associated with pro-environmental behavior ( Conclusion: Campus landscape scene experience is associated with university students' pro-environmental behavior both directly and indirectly through an awe-nature connectedness chain pathway. The findings extend research on restorative environments and pro-environmental behavior and offer empirical guidance for ecological education and campus landscape design in higher education.
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