Children can foster climate change concern among their parents
Children can foster climate change concern among their parents
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DOI：
10.1038/s41558-019-0463-3
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
影响因子：
30.7
通讯作者：
Seekamp, Erin
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作者：
Lawson, Danielle F.;Stevenson, Kathryn T.;Seekamp, Erin
缓解和适应气候变化所需的集体行动极难实现，主要是由于社会意识形态偏见使气候变化的两极分化持续存在（1，2）。由于儿童对气候变化的看法似乎不太容易受到世界观或政治背景的影响（3），他们可能会激励成年人对气候问题的关注程度更高，从而采取集体行动（4）。儿童对父母的代际学习-即知识，态度或行为从儿童转移到父母（5）-可能是克服气候问题的社会意识形态障碍的一条有希望的途径（5）。在这里，我们提出了一个实验性的评估教育干预，旨在建立间接通过他们的中学生在北卡罗来纳州，美国的父母之间的气候变化的关注。治疗组儿童的父母比对照组的父母表达了更高水平的气候变化关注。这种影响在男性父母和保守的父母中最为强烈，与先前的研究一致（1），他们在干预前对气候的关注程度最低。女儿似乎在影响父母方面特别有效。我们的研究结果表明，代际学习可以克服建立气候关注的障碍。
The collective action that is required to mitigate and adapt to climate change is extremely difficult to achieve, largely due to socio-ideological biases that perpetuate polarization over climate change(1,2). Because climate change perceptions in children seem less susceptible to the influence of worldview or political contexts(3), it may be possible for them to inspire adults towards higher levels of climate concern, and in turn, collective action(4). Child-to-parent intergenerational learning-that is, the transfer of knowledge, attitudes or behaviours from children to parents(5)-may be a promising pathway to over-coming socio-ideological barriers to climate concerns(5). Here we present an experimental evaluation of an educational intervention designed to build climate change concern among parents indirectly through their middle school-aged children in North Carolina, USA. Parents of children in the treatment group expressed higher levels of climate change concern than parents in the control group. The effects were strongest among male parents and conservative parents, who, consistent with previous research(1), displayed the lowest levels of climate concern before the intervention. Daughters appeared to be especially effective in influencing parents. Our results suggest that intergenerational learning may overcome barriers to building climate concern.