Variations in the Motivations of Environmental Citizen Scientists
Variations in the Motivations of Environmental Citizen Scientists
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环境公民科学家动机的变化
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
R. Pateman
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作者：
S. West;A. Dyke;R. Pateman
理解动机很重要，因为吸引和实现动机有助于公民科学项目招募和留住参与者。我们总结了有关动机的文献，借鉴了更广泛的志愿服务的关键理论，并在此基础上建立了公民科学家研究中确定的其他动机。我们还研究了人口群体之间动机差异的已知情况。然后，我们报告的613环境公民科学家在英国的调查，他们被要求从文献中的动机列表中选择。我们使用层次聚类分析法将受访者按动机类型进行分组。两个集群主要由持有价值观动机（关心他人或环境）的人主导，这两个集群都有很高比例的老年人和被认为来自白色族裔群体的人。第三组包括具有利己主义动机（参与学习或促进职业发展）和价值观动机的人。这个集群中一些通常代表性不足的群体的比例高于整体样本，包括年轻人，少数民族群体和社会经济地位较低的人。另外两个集群也有来自少数民族群体的比例高于整体样本，一个是那些因为被要求而参与的人，另一个是那些没有在我们名单上的其他动机的人。我们利用文献和调查中对参与者动机的见解，向那些希望招募和留住公民科学家的人提出建议，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体的人。
Understanding motivations is important because appealing to and fulfilling motivations helps citizen science projects recruit and retain participants. We summarise the literature around motivations, drawing on key theories from volunteering more broadly and building on this with additional motivations identified in studies of citizen scientists. We also examine what is known about differences in motivations between demographic groups. We then report on a survey of 613 environmental citizen scientists in Great Britain; they were asked to select from a list of motivations derived from the literature. We used hierarchical cluster analysis to group respondents by types of motivations held. Two clusters were dominated by people holding Values motivations (concern for others or the environment), both of which had high proportions of older people and people identifying as from white ethnic groups. A third cluster included people with Egoism motivations (participating to learn something or further one’s career) and Values motivations. This cluster had a higher proportion of some commonly underrepresented groups than the overall sample, including younger people, people identifying as from minority ethnic groups and people in lower socioeconomic groups. Two further clusters also had higher proportions of people from minority ethnic groups than the overall sample, one dominated by those who participated because they were asked to, and the other by people who held other motivations not in our list. We use insights on participant motivations from the literature and survey to make recommendations to those wishing to recruit and retain citizen scientists, particularly those from underrepresented groups.
反思西巴尔的摩设计包容性公民科学项目的努力
DOI：
10.5334/cstp.170
发表时间：
2019
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Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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作者：
Sorensen, Amanda E.;Jordan, Rebecca C.;LaDeau, Shannon L.;Biehler, Dawn;Wilson, Sacoby;Pitas, John-Henry;Leisnham, Paul T.
通讯作者：
Leisnham, Paul T.