Why Do Muslim Youths Participate in Environmental Volunteering?: An Analysis of Values Orientation.

Understanding youth environmental volunteering participation is a crucial strategy for building a citizenry that can contribute to environmental conservation efforts. Thus, this research investigated the environmental volunteering values orientation held by Malay Muslim youths in Malaysia that motiv...

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Publicado en:Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 206 - 239
Autores principales: Rahman, Norshariani Abd, Abdul Rahman, Alya Nasuha, Syed-Abdullah, Sharifah Intan Sharina, Halim, Lilia, Syed Zakaria, Sharifah Zarina, Ahmad, Abdul Razaq
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2021
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Sumario:Understanding youth environmental volunteering participation is a crucial strategy for building a citizenry that can contribute to environmental conservation efforts. Thus, this research investigated the environmental volunteering values orientation held by Malay Muslim youths in Malaysia that motivated them to engage in environmental volunteering programmes. This study started with semi-structured interviews which were then followed by a survey. The interviews were conducted with 10 participants who are environmental volunteers. Based on the interview findings, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 267 Malay Muslim environmental volunteers. The results revealed there are four values highly held by the Malay Muslim environmental volunteers that motivated them to participate in environmental volunteering, namely religious, biospheric, altruistic, and egoistic values, in that order. For this reason, there is a need to integrate religious values in environmental volunteering program to encourage communities to jointly engage in environmental conservation efforts.