Caring about the World, Caring about Each Other. Correlations of Ethics of Care, Environmental Responsibility and Gender Norms

The paper studies attitudes of environmental concerns in the context of recent Hungarian society. The correlations are examined that we presupposed between environmental concerns, climate change consciousness, the ethics of care and the values concerning gender relations ( the frame is based on previous studies by Strapko et al. 2016). The data for the analysis are taken from a cross-sectional survey conducted in the framework of the NKFIH project, called Sustainable Consumption Patterns, Behavioural Strategies and Knowledge Use in Hungarian Society, at the HUN-REN TK Institute of Sociology. Penalized linear LASSO regression was used to examine the variables associated with responsibility towards nature. Our results confirmed that there was a relationship between caring ethics, the values of gender-equality and environmental concerns that has not been studied in this way earlier on data of Hungarian society. We also discuss the potential for international comparability of the reported data.