Climate Change Attitudes about Human Responsibility among the NSU Community
Abstract
This research is about how people self-report climate change attitudes about human responsibility. Self-reports precede actions (Critchfield & Perone, 1990), so a predictive model of attitudes is important. Ransdell (2016) surveyed a similar NSU sample in 2015 and found that 62% reported a belief that climate change is mostly human-caused. The present study is a replication with some additional questions. As before, all with NSU email addresses were sent the survey once, without any incentive or follow-up. In this survey, the main goal was to predict Question 6 which showed participants' views on climate change as mostly human caused. The present study found the following questions as statistically significant predictors of question 6: Say you would help address climate change (Question 13; 13%), say climate change caused by humans (Question 14; 11%), say willing to contribute to prevention efforts (Question 15; 8%), says has political philosophy of common good (Question 10; 7%), and says health affected by climate change (Question 16; 7%). The results also show that over 90% of all participants now report that climate change is mostly human-caused.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Sarah Ransdell
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-3-2024 12:30 PM
End Date
4-4-2024 1:30 PM
Climate Change Attitudes about Human Responsibility among the NSU Community
Alvin Sherman Library
This research is about how people self-report climate change attitudes about human responsibility. Self-reports precede actions (Critchfield & Perone, 1990), so a predictive model of attitudes is important. Ransdell (2016) surveyed a similar NSU sample in 2015 and found that 62% reported a belief that climate change is mostly human-caused. The present study is a replication with some additional questions. As before, all with NSU email addresses were sent the survey once, without any incentive or follow-up. In this survey, the main goal was to predict Question 6 which showed participants' views on climate change as mostly human caused. The present study found the following questions as statistically significant predictors of question 6: Say you would help address climate change (Question 13; 13%), say climate change caused by humans (Question 14; 11%), say willing to contribute to prevention efforts (Question 15; 8%), says has political philosophy of common good (Question 10; 7%), and says health affected by climate change (Question 16; 7%). The results also show that over 90% of all participants now report that climate change is mostly human-caused.
