When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions
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10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102061
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发表时间：
2020-05-01
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8.9
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Steg, Linda
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作者：
Bouman, Thijs;Verschoor, Mark;Steg, Linda
IPCC关于全球变暖1.5摄氏度的报告将气候变化定位为人类面临的最令人担忧的问题之一。尽管许多人担心气候变化，但对气候变化担忧的起源和结果仍有很多未知之处;特别是，它是否以及如何激发具体和个人的气候行动。本文利用第8轮欧洲社会调查（来自23个国家的44，387名受访者）的数据调查了这一关键关系。正如预期的那样，越多的人担心气候变化，他们就越有可能采取和支持气候行动。然而，这种关联发生的过程因行动而异。具体而言，担心是直接和间接的，通过个人责任感，以减少气候变化，与气候政策的支持;而担心主要是间接与个人气候缓解行为，通过个人责任。此外，对气候变化的担忧似乎部分源于生物圈价值观（即，关心自然和环境），生物圈价值观也与个人气候减缓行为有着明显、直接和积极的关系。各国之间的关系高度一致，但规模略有不同。研究结果表明，对气候变化的普遍感受如何直接和间接地影响气候政策支持和个人气候缓解行为，从而为科学和政策制定提供重要见解。
The IPCC's report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C positioned climate change as one of the most worrying issues mankind has ever faced. Although many people worry about climate change, there is still much unknown about the origins and outcomes of worry about climate change; particularly, whether and how it can motivate specific and personal climate actions. The current paper investigates this critical relationship with data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (44,387 respondents from 23 countries). As expected, the more individuals worried about climate change, the more likely they were to take and support climate action. Yet, the process through which this association occurred differed between actions. Specifically, worry was both directly and indirectly, via feelings of personal responsibility to reduce climate change, associated with climate policy support; whereas worry was mostly indirectly associated with personal climate mitigation behaviours, via personal responsibility. In addition, worry about climate change appears partly rooted in biospheric values (i.e., caring about nature and the environment), and biospheric values were also clearly, directly and positively related to personal climate mitigation behaviours. The relationships were highly consistent across countries but varied somewhat in size. The results show how generic feelings about climate change can directly and indirectly affect both climate policy support and personal climate mitigation behaviours, thereby providing critical insights for science and policy making.