Explaining the ‘gender-risk effect’ in risk perception research: a qualitative secondary analysis study / Explicando el ‘efecto género-riesgo’ en la investigación de la percepción del riesgo: un estudio cualitativo de análisis secundario

Henwood, Karen; Pidgeon, Nick; Parkhill, Karen

doi:10.1080/21711976.2014.977532

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“…The literature reveals that several demographic factors are robust predictors of risk perception, including income (Babcicky & Seebauer, 2017;Cutler, 2016), gender (Enarson & Scanlon, 1999;Henwood, Pidgeon, & Parkhill, 2014;Milnes & Haney, 2017;Morioka, 2014), race and ethnicity (Spence, Lachlan, & Griffin, 2007), occupation (Kouabenan, 2002), age (Kellens, Zaalberg, Neutens, Vanneuville, & De Maeyer, 2011;Tuohy & Stephens, 2012), ability/disability (Alexander, Gaillard, & Wisner, 2012), educational attainment, and access to information (Park & Vedlitz, 2013). It is of note that age is a significant factor regarding how people wish to receive warnings and risk-related information, with younger people preferring newer forms of media (i.e., social media) and older people preferring traditional forms of media (i.e., television) (Feldman et al, 2016).…”

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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The persistent gap in flood risk awareness in Canada, and elsewhere in North America, is a continual source of worry for researchers and emergency managers; many people living in at‐risk places are simply unaware of risks and of their proximity to hazards. This study seeks to understand which residents were aware of flood risk, using unique representative survey data of Calgary residents living in the city's flood‐prone neighborhoods collected after the devastating and costly 2013 Southern Alberta Flood. The article uses logistic regression models to analyze which residents were aware of risk to their homes. Findings indicate that, in addition to various demographic predictors, many of the geographic predictors (including the elevation of one's home relative to the river) are significant predictors of awareness. Having a direct sight line to one of Calgary's two rivers is also a significant predictor in some of the models, suggesting that the visibility of hazards matters for flood risk perception, although this effect fades when many of the geographic predictors are added. Finally, the models indicate that several variables related to local, neighborhood‐based social networks are significant as well. These findings reveal that both physical surroundings and social context are important for understanding risk awareness. The article concludes by discussing the relevance for social science research on disasters and hazards, as well as for planners and emergency managers.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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“…Alternatively, from a qualitative social science perspective, one could examine how the ways in which people interpret experiences of change shape the potential contained within transitions. In this article, we adopt the latter approach, drawing on both psychosocial and anthropological perspectives to examine the identity-creating role of narrative and how people-construed as meaning-making subjects-make sense of transitions (Henwood, Pidgeon, and Parkhill 2015).…”

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Energy Biographies

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Henwood

Shirani

et al. 2015

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The problem of how to make the transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable society poses questions about how such far-reaching social change can be brought about. In recent years, lifecourse transitions have been identified by a range of researchers as opportunities for policy and other actors to intervene to change how individuals use energy, taking advantage of such disruptive transitions to encourage individuals to be reflexive toward their lifestyles and how they use the technological infrastructures on which they rely. Such identifications, however, employ narratives of voluntary change that take an overly optimistic view of how individuals experience lifecourse transitions and ignore effects of experiences of unresolved or unsuccessful transitions. Drawing on interview data from the Energy Biographies project at Cardiff University, we explore three case studies where the effects of such unresolved transitions are significant. Using the concept of liminal transition as developed by Victor Turner, we examine instances where “progressive” narratives of energy use reduction clash with other “narrative genres” used to make sense of change. Such clashes show how narratives that view lifecourse transitions as opportunities ignore the challenges that such transitions may pose to efforts to construct or sustain identities.

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“…On the other hand, some studies have found gender differences in the perception of energy sources and technologies [ 27 , 28 ]. Men report higher acceptance of hydroelectric energy and women of solar energy [ 26 ].…”

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Social Acceptance of Gas, Wind, and Solar Energies in the Canary Islands

Marrero

Hernández‐Cabrera

Fumero

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Background: This study tested a theoretical model including key psychosocial factors that could be involved in the acceptance of different energy sources (gas, wind, and solar); Methods: Participants were 550 adult residents of the Canary Islands. Variables assessed were information and utility (normative motives), perceived risk and perceived benefits (gain motives), and negative and positive emotions (hedonic motives), with acceptance of each of the three energy sources as outcome variables; Results: It was found that renewable energies (wind and solar) had a higher degree of acceptance than non-renewable energy (gas). The proposed model satisfactorily explained the social acceptance of the three energy sources, although the psychosocial factors involved differed by energy source. The gain motives, mainly perceived benefits, were associated to a greater extent with gas energy, whereas normative motives, such as utility, and hedonic motives, such as positive emotions, had greater weight for renewables. Gender differences in gas energy were found. Information about renewable energy increased positive emotions and acceptance, whereas information about fossil fuel-based energy generated more negative emotions and perceived risk, decreasing acceptance; Conclusions: Utility, perceived benefits and positive emotions were involved on the acceptance of both renewables and non-renewables. The theoretical model tested seems to be useful for understanding the psychosocial functioning of the acceptance of the various energy sources as an essential aspect for the transition of non-renewable to renewable energies.

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Explaining the ‘gender-risk effect’ in risk perception research: a qualitative secondary analysis study / Explicando el ‘efecto género-riesgo’ en la investigación de la percepción del riesgo: un estudio cualitativo de análisis secundario

Cited by 6 publications

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Energy Biographies

Social Acceptance of Gas, Wind, and Solar Energies in the Canary Islands

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