The role of implicit theories about climate change malleability in the prediction of pro-environmental behavioral intentions

Autor: Esther Cuadrado, Luis Macias-Zambrano, Isabel Guzman, Antonio J. Carpio, Carmen Tabernero
Přispěvatelé: [Cuadrado, Esther] Univ Cordoba, Dept Psychol, Calle San Alberto Magno S-N, Cordoba 14071, Spain, [Guzman, Isabel] Univ Cordoba, Dept Psychol, Calle San Alberto Magno S-N, Cordoba 14071, Spain, [Cuadrado, Esther] Maimonides Biomed Res Inst Cordoba IMIBIC, Avda Menendez Pidal S-N, Cordoba 14004, Spain, [Macias-Zambrano, Luis] Univ Cordoba, Dept Zool, Campus Rabanales Ed Darwin, Cordoba 14071, Spain, [Carpio, Antonio J.] Univ Cordoba, Dept Zool, Campus Rabanales Ed Darwin, Cordoba 14071, Spain, [Macias-Zambrano, Luis] Lay Univ Eloy Alfaro Manabi, Agr Sci Fac, Av Circunvalac Via San Mateo, Manta 130214, Ecuador, [Carpio, Antonio J.] IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM, Res Inst Hunting Resources, Ronda Toledo 12, Ciudad Real 13071, Spain, [Tabernero, Carmen] Univ Salamanca, Dept Social Psychol, Campus Miguel Unamuno, Salamanca 37007, Spain, [Tabernero, Carmen] Inst Neurociencias Castilla & Leon INCyL, Salamanca, Spain, CRUE-CSIC agreement, Springer Nature, Universidad de Cordoba/CBUA
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Environment, Development and Sustainability (2022)
Helvia. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Córdoba
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ISSN: 1573-2975
1387-585X
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-022-02525-x
Popis: Understanding the variables that influence pro-environmental intentions is key to promoting pro-environmental actions. In this research, we analyze how the sense of responsibility toward climate change and implicit theories about climate change (ITCC) interact to condition individual pro-environmental intention. A total of 48 psychology students with a mean age of 19 years were randomly divided into two experimental groups and participated in a pretest–posttest experiment. The experimental manipulation consisted of reading a news extract regarding scientific research: one group was given information stating that climate change is still reversible, instilling incremental ITCC; the other group was given the opposite information, instilling static ITCC. The results of the one-way ANOVA (F = 4.206, p p p = .901). This research emphasized the relevance of promoting incremental ITCC interventions in the environmental education field, as the sense of responsibility toward climate change is deterministic but not in itself enough to acquire the intention to behave in a pro-environmental way.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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