{"id":139771,"date":"2024-12-13T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=139771"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:30:26","slug":"individual-behaviour-as-a-community-resilience-factor-lessons-for-policy-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignlanguages.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/individual-behaviour-as-a-community-resilience-factor-lessons-for-policy-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Behaviour as a Community Resilience Factor: Lessons for Policy Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sonya Karabeliova,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Elena Kalfova,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yonko Bushnyashki<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2024-04S-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2024-04S-03<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The article links community resilience \u2013 the resilience of the political community, with the process of public policy-making. In the argumentation, the study investigates the formation of community resilience and the importance of individual attitudes, compared to the individualism-collectivism scale. The sample research is conducted among 669 respondents in Bulgaria, aged 15 to 77 years old (M=29.3; SD=13.39). The applied methodology is based on the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) to measure people\u2019s environmental attitudes, and the Ecological Consumer Behaviour Scale to measure eco-anxiety and pro-environmental behavioural intentions. Empirical study measures self-efficacy, Big Five personality traits, and values orientations. The results confirm that there were gender differences on the NEP scale, including that women show higher environmental attitudes. The research findings provide explanations how human values were positively related to one\u2019s awareness of the environmental crisis. Finally, neuroticism correlated positively with realising the limit to growth. Therefore, it is important, that the design and the implementation of public policies and educational programs, consider various psychological aspects of individual human behaviour. This approach may have key implications for engaging in future sustainable behaviour and increasing the degree of resilience.<br \/>\n<em>Keywords:<\/em> resilience, pro-environmental behaviour, public policy, values, attitudes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/karabeliova.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open the full text<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonya Karabeliova, Elena Kalfova, Yonko Bushnyashki Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2024-04S-03 Abstract: The article links community resilience \u2013 the resilience of the political community, with the process of public policy-making. 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