The impact of parenthood on environmental attitudes and behaviour: a longitudinal investigation of the legacy hypothesis.
The impact of parenthood on environmental attitudes and behaviour: a longitudinal investigation of the legacy hypothesis.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11111-017-0291-1
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Poortinga W
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文献类型：
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作者：
Thomas GO;Fisher R;Whitmarsh L;Milfont TL;Poortinga W
参与可持续行动的意愿可能会受到气候变化心理距离的限制。在这项研究中，我们检验了遗产假说，该假说认为有孩子会导致父母在环境质量方面考虑留给后代的遗产。利用代表英国人口(n=18176)的纵向调查--理解社会数据集，我们评估了生孩子可能如何改变人们的个人环境态度和行为。结果表明，有了一个新孩子与一些环境行为的频率略有下降有关。只有已经高度关注环境的父母才表现出在第一个孩子出生后采取更可持续行动的愿望略有增加。总体而言，就个人层面的环境态度和行为而言，这些结果并没有提供支持遗留假说的证据。我们认为，在过渡到为人父母的过程中，人们优先考虑的是儿童的眼前福祉，而不是未来的环境威胁。本文的在线版本(10.1007/s11111-0170291-1)包含补充材料，可供授权用户使用。
Willingness to engage in sustainable actions may be limited by the psychological distance of climate change. In this study, we test the legacy hypothesis, which holds that having children leads parents to consider the legacy left to offspring in respect of environmental quality. Using the Understanding Society dataset, a longitudinal survey representative of the UK population (n = 18,176), we assess how having children may change people’s individual environmental attitudes and behaviour. Results indicate that having a new child is associated with a small decrease in the frequency of a few environmental behaviours. Only parents with already high environmental concern show a small increase in the desire to act more sustainably after the birth of their first child. Overall, the results do not provide evidence in support of the legacy hypothesis in terms of individual-level environmental attitudes and behaviours. We argue that the transition to parenthood is a time where concern is prioritised on the immediate wellbeing of the child and not on the future environmental threats. The online version of this article (10.1007/s11111-017-0291-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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