DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2181-7
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85044776316
论文题名: Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation
作者: Davydova J. ; Pearson A.R. ; Ballew M.T. ; Schuldt J.P.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2018
起始页码: 1
结束页码: 15
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Attributions of responsibility
; Climate change
; Collective control
; Mitigation beliefs
; Threat perception
Scopus关键词: Climate models
; Public risks
; Attributions of responsibility
; Causal attributions
; Effective communication
; Environmental risks
; Government entities
; Mitigation beliefs
; Public engagement
; Structural equation modeling
; Climate change
英文摘要: Perceiving greater threat from climate change has been shown to positively affect beliefs about humanity’s ability to mitigate the threat. We examined two possible mediators of this paradoxical relationship utilizing data from a large socioeconomically diverse sample of the US adults (n = 1040) collected in 2015. Specifically, we predicted that attributing responsibility for either causing or mitigating climate change to government entities would bolster perceived collective control for addressing the problem. Results of structural equation modeling suggest that both types of attributions mediate the relationship between perceived threat and control over climate change, with the full model accounting for 57% of the variance in perceived collective control. Moreover, for the overall sample, attributions of responsibility for mitigating climate change emerged as a stronger mediator of perceived control than did causal attributions and as the only significant mediator among Republicans. We consider implications of these findings for understanding the role of attribution processes in public engagement on climate change and the effective communication of environmental risks. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/83736
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Department of Communication, Cornell University, 497 Mann Library Building, Ithaca, NY, United States; Department of Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States; Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Davydova J.,Pearson A.R.,Ballew M.T.,et al. Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation[J]. Climatic Change,2018-01-01