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نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 گروه علوم اجتماعی، دانشکده حقوق و علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه تبریز

2 دانشگاه آزاد واحد ارومیه

چکیده

تغییرات در سبک زندگی و الگوی مصرف تأثیرات بسیار زیادی بر محیط زیست داشته است، به­طوری­که این تغییرات، باعث افزایش ردپای اکولوژیک (تأثیر انسان بر محیط زیست) و کاهش ظرفیت زیست محیطی شده است. در کنار عوامل دیگر، دو عامل اجتماعی مؤثر بر میزان ردپای اکولوژیک و فاصله گرفتن انسان­ها و جوامع از پایداری زیست محیطی، مادیگرایی و مصرف­گرایی می­توانند قلمداد شوند. مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی روابط بین مادیگرایی، مصرف­گرایی و ردپای اکولوژیک انجام یافته است. جامعه­ آماری پژوهش حاضر شهروندان ارومیه و نمونه­ آماری آن 516 نفر از شهروندان 65-15 سال می­باشد که با به­کارگیری روش پیمایش و استفاده از نمونه­گیری خوشه­ای، مورد بررسی قرار گرفته­اند. نتایج به دست آمده نشان می­دهد متغیرهای مادیگرایی، مصرف­گرایی و پایگاه اقتصادی- اجتماعی، اثر مثبت و معنی­داری بر میزان ردپای اکولوژیک مصرف در بین شهروندان شهر ارومیه جنسیت، اثر کاهشی و معنی­داری بر آن داشته است. همچنین، نتایج تحلیل­های چند متغیره نشان داد که متغیرهای مذکور همراه با متغیر جنسیت پاسخگویان در مجموع 25/0 از تغییرات متغیر وابسته را مورد تبیین قرار می­دهند. 

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

Mediating Role of Consumerism on the Relationship between materialism and ecological footprint (The case of urmia citizens)

نویسندگان [English]

  • T. Aghyari, hir 1
  • H. Honarvar 2
  • M.B. Alizadeh Aghdam 1

1 Social Science Department, Tabriz University

2 Azad University of Urmia

چکیده [English]

Changing in life style and consumption patterns has significant effect on environment, so that these changes increased ecological footprint (human effect on environment) and decreased ecological capacity. Along with other factors, two social factors viewed as effective factors on ecological footprint and made human and societies depart from environment sustainability, materialism and consumerism. The present study has been done with the aim of investigating the relationship among materialism, consumerism and ecological footprint. The population study is Urmia citizens and its statistic sample is 516 subjects in 15-64 ages that have been studied by use of survey method and cluster sampling. The achieved results show that variables such as materialism, consumerism and socio-economic status have had a positive and meaningful effect with less and meaningful effect of gender on rate of consumption’s ecological footprint among Urmia citizens. Also, the results of multivariable analysis showed that mentioned variables with variable of respondent’s gender generally explains 0.25 of changes of dependent variable. 

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Ecological Footprint
  • Materialism
  • Consumerism
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