Attitude Formation and Political Behavior in Response to Global Change

应对全球变化的态度形成和政治行为

• 批准号: 9224036
• 负责人: Paul Stern
• 金额: $ 7.02万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-05-15 至 1996-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9224036&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Attitude; Formation; Political; Behavior; Response

This project will develop an innovative set of instruments to study how members of the general public react to emerging global environmental problems. The proposal assumes that willingness to take action on environmental issues is influenced by some combination of the underlying backgrounds and values of individuals and the way in which environmental issues enter their awareness and are framed for them. The researchers will design a set of questions to assess willingness to take action in regard to four specific environmental problems: greenhouse warming, species loss, and two "newly emerging" environmental issues to be chosen during the course of the research. Vignettes in the questionnaire involving each environmental problem will be experimentally manipulated to vary whether they involve claims of harm to the individual, to others, or to the biosphere, and whether such claims of harm are said to be disputed by some experts or not. Willingness to take action will be assessed through a variety of questions concerning willingness to pay for countermeasures and likelihood of joining activities to pressure private industry and government agencies to deal with environmental problems. These vignettes and other parts of the questionnaire will be developed through a series of pilot studies and then employed in a small scale (N=200) telephone survey of a representative sample of adults living in Northern Virginia. If this project is successful, the researchers contemplate mounting a larger investigation employing the experimentally varying questionnaire vignettes developed here. This project will contribute to an understanding of the conditions under which members of the general public are likely to join activities designed to deal with emerging environmental problems. In addition, this research will improve our understanding of the general process by which attitudes in regard to emerging and unstable issues become formed.

该项目将开发一套创新的仪器 研究公众对新出现的 全球 环境问题。 该提案假设 的 对环境问题采取行动的意愿受到影响 一些潜在的背景和价值观的结合， 个人和环境问题进入其 他们的觉悟，他们的觉悟，他们的觉悟。 研究人员将设计一个 评估是否愿意采取行动的一套问题 四个具体的环境问题：温室效应， 物种损失，以及两个“新出现的”环境问题， 在研究过程中选择的。 小插曲在 涉及每一个环境问题的问卷将 被 实验性地操纵，以改变它们是否涉及声称 对个人、他人或生物圈造成伤害， 这种伤害的说法是否据说受到一些人的质疑， 专家或不。 将评估采取行动的意愿 通过各种关于支付意愿的问题， 应对措施和参与压力活动的可能性 私人 行业 和政府机构 到 交易 与 环境问题。 这些小插曲和其他部分 将通过一系列试点研究编制调查表 然后在一个小规模（N=200）的电话调查， 生活在北方弗吉尼亚州的成年人的代表性样本。 如果 这个项目是成功的，研究人员考虑安装 一个更大的调查采用实验变化 问卷小插图在这里开发。 该项目将有助于了解 一般公众成员可能在何种情况下 参加旨在处理新出现的环境问题的活动， 问题 在 此外，本研究将 提高 我们 对一般过程的理解， 新的和不稳定的问题已经形成。