DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1627-z
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84969718282
论文题名: Impacts of adaptation and responsibility framings on attitudes towards climate change mitigation
作者: Howell R.A. ; Capstick S. ; Whitmarsh L.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2016
卷: 136, 期: 2018-03-04 起始页码: 445
结束页码: 461
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Climate models
; Climate change mitigation
; Interaction effect
; Main effect
; Media coverage
; Public attitudes
; Public support
; Climate change
; attitudinal survey
; climate change
; experimental design
; mitigation
; perception
; public attitude
; United Kingdom
英文摘要: It is likely that climate change communications and media coverage will increasingly stress the importance of adaptation, yet little is known about whether or how this may affect attitudes towards mitigation. Despite concerns that communicating adaptation could undermine public support for mitigation, previous research has found it can have the opposite effect by increasing risk salience. It is also unclear whether people respond differently to information about mitigation and adaptation depending on whether action is framed as an individual or government responsibility. Using an experimental design, this study sought to examine how public attitudes towards mitigation are influenced by varying climate change messages, and how this might interact with prior attitudes to climate change. UK-based participants (N = 800) read one of four texts in a 2 à 2 design comparing adaptation versus mitigation information and personal versus governmental action. No main effect was found for adaptation versus mitigation framing, nor for individual action versus government policy, but we did observe a series of interaction effects with prior attitudes to climate change. Mitigation and adaptation information affected participants’ responses differently depending on their pre-existing levels of concern about climate change, suggesting that mitigation framings may be more engaging for those with high levels of concern, whereas adaptation framings may be more engaging for low-concern individuals. Government mitigation action appears to engender particularly polarised attitudes according to prior concern. Implications for climate change communications are considered. © 2016, The Author(s). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84299
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 Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Howell R.A.,Capstick S.,Whitmarsh L.. Impacts of adaptation and responsibility framings on attitudes towards climate change mitigation[J]. Climatic Change,2016-01-01,136(2018-03-04)