Energy Conservation Behaviors, Climate Change Attitudes, Income, and Behavioral Plasticity
Energy Conservation Behaviors, Climate Change Attitudes, Income, and Behavioral Plasticity
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节能行为、气候变化态度、收入和行为可塑性
作者：
S. Kaplowitz;Janice L. Boucher
我们研究了(a)执行12种不同的家庭节能行为（hecb）， (b)对人为气候变化（ACC）的态度，以及(c)家庭收入之间的关系。从美国的一项代表性调查中，我们询问这些关联的大小如何随时间和行为的不适（麻烦）的经济和非经济成本而变化。我们还研究了这些成本与heb的可塑性（行为延展性）的关系。我们发现非经济成本与可塑性和执行HECB密切相关。然而，当控制这些非经济成本时，经济成本实际上与这些变量无关。在这些hecb中，初始经济储蓄最强的行为（不是单独驾驶）与收入的相关性最强（负相关）。相比之下，对于我们研究的大多数行为，ACC态度是比家庭收入更好的预测因素。
We examine the associations among (a) performing 12 different household energy conservation behaviors (HECBs) and (b) attitudes about anthropogenic climate change (ACC), and (c) household income. From a survey representative of the United States, we ask how the magnitude of these associations varies with the economic and the non-economic costs of the time and discomfort (hassle) of a behavior. We also examine the relationship of these costs to the plasticity (behavioral malleability) of a HECB. We find that non-economic costs strongly correlate with plasticity and with performing the HECB. However, when controlling for these non-economic costs, economic costs have virtually no association with these variables. Among these HECBs, the behavior with the strongest initial economic savings (not driving alone) shows the strongest association with income (a negative association). In contrast, for most behaviors we studied, ACC attitudes were a much better predictor than household income.
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9
作者：
Bird S;Hernández D
通讯作者：
Hernández D