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Outstanding Thesis Award Robert E. Hoot was recognized for his original research in environmental behavior.  Robert E. Hoot The Outstanding Thesis Award is awarded annually to the Walden graduate whose thesis is judged as meeting the highest standards of academic excellence.
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Recipient: Robert E. Hoot
Program: M.S. in Psychology
Thesis Title: Transpersonal Feelings of Environmental Interconnectedness and Environmental Behavior
Nominator Comments: “Robert’s thesis is the product of original research, employs effective statistical analysis and integrates the results of a broad spectrum of prior research,” said nominating faculty member and committee chair Dr. Harris Friedman. “The study expands on the existing body of research by examining two variables (connectedness and consideration of future consequences) that have been studied individually but for which there is a lack of research in their combined use in the prediction of environmental behavior. … The study also examines the interaction of these variables, which has not previously been explored.”
About the Thesis: Hoot conducted his master’s thesis research on how interconnectedness and future orientation relate to a person’s environmental behavior. In his thesis, Hoot interviewed 210 patrons of a farmer’s market to measure their transpersonal self-expansiveness and a nature-specific measure of self-expansiveness. He also took measures of future orientation, environmental beliefs and environmental behavior.
“The results of this study provide evidence that transpersonal measures of self-expansiveness can predict environmental behavior and that both a measure of self-expansiveness and a measure of future orientation are statistically significant predictors of environmental behavior in a multiple regression,” Hoot wrote in his thesis.
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