Hope for the future and willingness to pay for sustainable energy

Pleeging, Emma; Exel, Job van; Burger, Martijn; Stavropoulos, Spyridon

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106900

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“…This research, as in many studies in the literature, showed climate change awareness and the hope of preventing climate change are interrelated (Ojala, 2012b; Pleeging et al, 2021; Sutton, 2020). Climate change will have an impact not only today but also in the future.…”

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“…Experts suggest that researching the prevention of climate change requires an interdisciplinary approach where psychologists play an essential role (Gifford, 2008;Oskamp, 2000). For this reason, there has been a recent increase in the number of studies examining the relationship between individuals' awareness of climate change and their level of hope for the prevention of climate change (Ojala, 2012a(Ojala, , 2012bPleeging et al, 2021). However, I could not find a study in the literature examining the mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between climate change awareness and the hope of preventing climate change.…”

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The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change

Çıplak

2022

South African Journal of Psychology

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This study examined the mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between climate change awareness and the hope of preventing the climate emergency. The study group consisted of 398 adults. The data were collected using the awareness scale of university students about global climate change, climate change hope scale, and the Zimbardo time perspective inventory future time perspective subscale. The data were analyzed by SPSS 25.0, LISREL 8.70, and PROCESS v3.4 for SPSS. The results showed that the mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between climate change awareness and the hope of preventing climate change was statistically significant. The results also demonstrated that the future time perspective should be taken into account in interventions to increase the awareness and hope of individuals about climate change. This may be particularly important in countries such as Turkey, where action plans to prevent climate change have only recently come into force.

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The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change

Çıplak

2022

South African Journal of Psychology

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“…Consumers with strong environmental concerns are willing to pay a premium for renewable fuels in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Marra et al 2012). The studies conducted among the residents of the Netherlands indicated that the WTP indicator is associated with understanding and worry and this association is stronger when accompanied by hope (Pleeging et al 2020). The concerns related to the use of non-renewable energy sources are connected to the adverse effect of air pollution on health (Tainio et al 2020).…”

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Willingness to pay for the renewable energy sources of the residents of Kraków and their perception of the actions aimed at reducing the level of environmental pollution

Mamica¹

2021

Polityka Energetyczna – Energy Policy Journal

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Implementing energy transformation through the goal of the more extensive use of renewable energy sources is one of the key tasks on the road to slowing adverse climate change. The pace of this transformation is dependent on both the political decisions and social support for the implemented changes. The indicator of the aforementioned support is the Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy Sources (WTP) declared by residents. The increase of the WTP value influences a more rapid and wider substitution of non-renewable energy sources with renewable energy sources. The goal of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the WTP indicator on the example of residents of Kraków and their perception of the actions aimed at reducing the level of environmental pollution. Research is based on a survey performed on a representative sample of 393 residents of Kraków, Poland. In the surveyed group of residents, the average monthly willingness to pay more for renewable energy was PLN 83.7, i.e. approx. USD 21.47. The WTP differs in a statistically significant manner depending on the type of housing in which the respondents reside. On average, the residents 118 of detached houses or terraced housing declared the WTP value twice as high as the WTP value declared by the residents of apartment buildings or tenement houses.

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“…This is perhaps not very surprising, considering the relatively large impact that hope appears to have on our daily lives. Research has found hope to be an important correlate or determinant of several, mainly positive, life-outcomes such as the academic and athletic success of youngsters (Snyder 2002); recovery after (mental) illness (Snyder 2002;Herth 1992); proactive economic behaviour (Duflo 2012;Reichard et al 2013;Flechtner 2014;Lybbert and Wydick 2018); sustainable behaviour (Ojala 2012;Pleeging et al 2020); mental health and even longevity (Graham and Pinto 2019;O'Connor and Graham 2019). However, research on the topic has remained largely within the confines of these different disciplines, meaning that the specific definition and instruments used to measure hope are often quite divergent between 1 3 fields (Bailey et al 2007;Webb 2007;Redlich-Amirav et al 2018;Pleeging et al 2021b).…”

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Measuring hope: validity of short versions of four popular hope scales

Pleeging

2022

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Popular hope-instruments differ significantly in how they define hope. Due to their length, these instruments are rarely used in large-scale surveys or combined in interdisciplinary research. This study validates short versions of four hope instruments; the Adult Trait Hope Scale; Herth Hope Index; Locus Of Hope Scale; and spiritual dimension of the Comprehensive Hope Scale. Results show that the short versions function equally well as their longer counterparts. However, all scales show remarkably low correlations with similar concepts such as a single-item-hope-question and expectations. We argue that hope is a multi-dimensional phenomenon and that each of these instrument covers only one part of the experience, meaning that combining these instruments would yield more comprehensive insights. Moreover, cross-cultural comparison indicates that the social LOHS and spiritual CHS are less important in the Netherlands compared to Mexico. These findings suggest that different instruments might be more relevant in different contexts.

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Hope for the future and willingness to pay for sustainable energy

Cited by 31 publications

References 46 publications

The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change

The mediating role of the future time perspective in the relationship between global climate change awareness and hope for the prevention of climate change

Willingness to pay for the renewable energy sources of the residents of Kraków and their perception of the actions aimed at reducing the level of environmental pollution

Measuring hope: validity of short versions of four popular hope scales

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