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DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1228-7
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84919877299
论文题名:
Overcoming skepticism with education: interacting influences of worldview and climate change knowledge on perceived climate change risk among adolescents
作者: Stevenson K.T.; Peterson M.N.; Bondell H.D.; Moore S.E.; Carrier S.J.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2014
卷: 126, 期:2018-03-04
起始页码: 293
结束页码: 304
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Global warming ; Anthropogenic global warming ; Climate change risks ; Knowledge level ; Middle school students ; North Carolina , USA ; Percentage points ; Science literacy ; Statistical differences ; Risk perception
英文摘要: Though many climate literacy efforts attempt to communicate climate change as a risk, these strategies may be ineffective because among adults, worldview rather than scientific understanding largely drives climate change risk perceptions. Further, increased science literacy may polarize worldview-driven perceptions, making some climate literacy efforts ineffective among skeptics. Because worldviews are still forming in the teenage years, adolescents may represent a more receptive audience. This study examined how worldview and climate change knowledge related to acceptance of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and in turn, climate change risk perception among middle school students in North Carolina, USA (n = 387). We found respondents with individualistic worldviews were 16.1 percentage points less likely to accept AGW than communitarian respondents at median knowledge levels, mirroring findings in similar studies among adults. The interaction between knowledge and worldview, however, was opposite from previous studies among adults, because increased climate change knowledge was positively related to acceptance of AGW among both groups, and had a stronger positive relationship among individualists. Though individualists were 24.1 percentage points less likely to accept AGW than communitarians at low levels (bottom decile) of climate change knowledge, there was no statistical difference in acceptance levels between individualists and communitarians at high levels of knowledge (top decile). Non-White and females also demonstrated higher levels of AGW acceptance and climate change risk perception, respectively. Thus, education efforts specific to climate change may counteract divisions based on worldviews among adolescents. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84898
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作者单位: Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Department of Elementary Education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States

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Stevenson K.T.,Peterson M.N.,Bondell H.D.,et al. Overcoming skepticism with education: interacting influences of worldview and climate change knowledge on perceived climate change risk among adolescents[J]. Climatic Change,2014-01-01,126(2018-03-04)
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