The Moderating Effect of Life Satisfaction and Post-Materialism on the Relationship between Religiosity and Environmental Attitudes

Student: Samuel ebo Quarshie

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Data Analytics for Politics and Society (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Using multilevel modelling approaches, this study investigates the relationship between religion, life satisfaction, postmaterialism, and environmental views in 33 different nations. We investigate how national postmaterialism and life happiness interact with individual-level religiosity to affect national views towards the environment, using data from a large-scale survey. Our findings show the complex mechanisms that underpin people's attitudes towards the environment in various cultural and socioeconomic situations by revealing subtle patterns of association.

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