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<p>Despite growing awareness of environmental issues, ecological conditions continue to deteriorate, partly because individuals, including young people, often perceive these problems as temporally distant. Personality traits have been suggested as relevant yet underexplored factors in addressing this perception. This study examines how dispositional optimism influences ecological attitudes among young people, mediated by Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) and generativity. Drawing on positive psychology and temporal cognition, it explores how optimism shapes future-oriented thinking and both agentic and communal generative motivations in forming ecological attitude. Data from 543 Quebec university young students were analyzed using structural equation modeling to test relationships among optimism, CFC (immediate and future), generativity (agentic and communal), and ecological attitude, with established French-adapted scales. Findings Findings reveal that optimism is positively linked to CFC-Future, agentic generativity, and communal generativity. Only communal generativity and CFC-Immediate significantly influence ecological attitude, with communal generativity having a positive effect and CFC-Immediate a negative one. Surprisingly, CFC-Future and agentic generativity did not significantly impact ecological attitude. This study is among the first to explore how CFC and generativity influence ecological attitudes in young people, highlighting communal versus agentic generativity and optimism’s role in shaping future-focused environmental concerns.</p>

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Can Young People’s Future Time Experience be a Catalyst for Their Ecological Attitudes ? Analysis of the Effect of Dispositional Optimism, Consideration of Future Consequences and Generativity

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    2026年7月27日

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  • Bernard Korai,
  • Wajdi Hellali

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Despite growing awareness of environmental issues, ecological conditions continue to deteriorate, partly because individuals, including young people, often perceive these problems as temporally distant. Personality traits have been suggested as relevant yet underexplored factors in addressing this perception. This study examines how dispositional optimism influences ecological attitudes among young people, mediated by Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) and generativity. Drawing on positive psychology and temporal cognition, it explores how optimism shapes future-oriented thinking and both agentic and communal generative motivations in forming ecological attitude. Data from 543 Quebec university young students were analyzed using structural equation modeling to test relationships among optimism, CFC (immediate and future), generativity (agentic and communal), and ecological attitude, with established French-adapted scales. Findings Findings reveal that optimism is positively linked to CFC-Future, agentic generativity, and communal generativity. Only communal generativity and CFC-Immediate significantly influence ecological attitude, with communal generativity having a positive effect and CFC-Immediate a negative one. Surprisingly, CFC-Future and agentic generativity did not significantly impact ecological attitude. This study is among the first to explore how CFC and generativity influence ecological attitudes in young people, highlighting communal versus agentic generativity and optimism’s role in shaping future-focused environmental concerns.