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Why do some people do 'more' to mitigate climate change than others? Exploring heterogeneity in psycho-social associations
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 9, p e106645 (2014), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014.
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Abstract
- The urgency of climate change mitigation calls for a profound shift in personal behavior. This paper investigates psycho-social correlates of extra mitigation behavior in response to climate change, while also testing for potential (unobserved) heterogeneity in European citizens' decision-making. A person's extra mitigation behavior in response to climate change is conceptualized--and differentiated from common mitigation behavior--as some people's broader and greater levels of behavioral engagement (compared to others) across specific self-reported mitigation actions and behavioral domains. Regression analyses highlight the importance of environmental psychographics (i.e., attitudes, motivations, and knowledge about climate change) and socio-demographics (especially country-level variables) in understanding extra mitigation behavior. By looking at the data through the lens of segmentation, significant heterogeneity is uncovered in the associations of attitudes and knowledge about climate change--but not in motivational or socio-demographic links--with extra mitigation behavior in response to climate change, across two groups of environmentally active respondents. The study has implications for promoting more ambitious behavioral responses to climate change, both at the individual level and across countries.
- Subjects :
- Male
Atmospheric Science
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Social Sciences
lcsh:Medicine
Behavioral engagement
Behavioral Ecology
Sociology
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Morphogenesis
Psychology
Medicine
lcsh:Science
Psychographic
media_common
Climatology
Aged, 80 and over
Social Research
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Public economics
Environmental resource management
Middle Aged
Research Design
Female
Psychosocial
Research Article
Adult
Conservation of Natural Resources
Social Psychology
Adolescent
Climate Change
Climate change
Research and Analysis Methods
Young Adult
Humans
media_common.cataloged_instance
European union
Social Behavior
Aged
Behavior
Motivation
Survey Research
business.industry
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Global warming
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
Morphogenic Segmentation
Individual level
Cross-Sectional Studies
Climate change mitigation
Earth Sciences
lcsh:Q
business
Environmental Protection
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d022bb2ee71ee4a0960f06f65acade3c