Reply to Komatsu et al.: From local social mindfulness to global sustainability efforts?

• Main Authors: van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R. O., Gallucci, M., Aharonov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., Au, W. T., Bai, L., Böhm, R., Bovina, I., Buchan, N. R., Chen, X. P., Dumont, K. B., Engelmann, J. B., Eriksson, K., LI, Norman P., Fiedler, S., Friesen, J., Gächter, S., Garcia, C., González, R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: mindfulness; social mindfulness; Place and Environment; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3548; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4806/viewcontent/REPLYtoKOMATSUetal_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Komatsu et al. (1) argue that Van Doesum et al. (2) may have overlooked the role of GDP in reporting a positive association between social mindfulness (SoMi) and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) at country level. Although the relationship between EPI and SoMi is relatively weaker for countries with higher GDP, that does not imply that the overall observed relationship is a statistical artifact. Rather, it implies that GDP may be a moderator of the relationship between EPI and SoMi. The observed correlation is a valid result on average across countries, and the actual effect size would, at least to some degree, depend on GDP.