Public Attitudes toward Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues across Countries

Smith, Tom W.; Kim, Jibum; Son, Jaesok

doi:10.1080/00207659.2017.1264837

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“…Instructors can readily find current opinion poll data that reflect contemporary attitudes toward gay rights. For example, a recent survey showed that, in the United States, support for gay marriage is especially strong among people between the ages of 18 and 34 (77%; Pew Research Center, 2015); this trend also holds internationally (Smith, Son, & Kim, 2014). For most of our students, then, acceptance of gay rights seems to be a given.…”

Section: National and International Opinion Poll Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

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Bryant-Lees

2016

Teaching of Psychology

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Over the past several decades, the shifting social climate has led to a steady increase in legal rights, social acceptance, and visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. However, there are still marked individual differences in levels of sexual prejudice as well as varying levels of comfort and exposure to the LGBT community. Moreover, the rapid shift in attitudes may lead students to conclude incorrectly that sexual prejudice is a thing of the past. The focus of this article is threefold. First, we emphasize the benefits of teaching about the history of the gay rights movement; when students learn about the past, they gain important insights into the lived experiences of LGBT individuals. Second, we illustrate the ways in which discrimination against LGBTs is still quite evident, including bullying, transgender rights, and employment disparities based on sexual prejudice. Third, we underscore the need to acknowledge heterosexual privilege and to explain why students should consider this privilege as part of their daily experience. Throughout the article, we discuss strategies and activities that instructors can use to effectively incorporate LGBT issues into psychology courses.

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Section: National and International Opinion Poll Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, trends toward greater acceptance of homosexuality have emerged in Northwestern Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. However, in Eastern Europe and in much of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, strongly negative attitudes toward LGBs are the norm (Smith et al, 2014).…”

Section: National and International Opinion Poll Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

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Bryant-Lees

2016

Teaching of Psychology

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“…However, evidence concerning the effect of age on climate change concern is far from conclusive. Although some studies found greater climate change concern among the young (Egan and Mullin, 2017; McCright et al 2016), others found a negative relationship between age and climate change concern (Lewis et al, 2019; Smith et al, 2017; Tjernström and Tietenberg, 2008), and yet, some others have found an insignificant relationship (Gray et al, 2019). Yet, some argued that the relationship between age and climate change concern is curvilinear, such that the greatest concern is observed among those aged between 30 years and 60 years (Kvaløy et al, 2012).…”

Section: Other Influences On Climate Change Concernmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Education provides cognitive resources that facilitate the understanding of the scientific underpinnings of climate change and gives the citizens the capacity to participate in political action (Kvaløy et al, 2012: 12; Marquart-Pyatt, 2008). Education is also associated with an appreciation of the environment and understanding of the ways that it benefits the society (Smith et al, 2017). Educated individuals have better access to information relevant to climate change, including early warning signals (Striessnig et al, 2013: 15).…”

Section: Other Influences On Climate Change Concernmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis

Arıkan

Günay

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Addressing climate change requires international effort from both governments and the public. Climate change concern is a crucial variable influencing public support for measures to address climate change. Combining country-level data with data from the Pew Research Center Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey, we test whether perceived threats from climate change influence climate change concern. We distinguish between personal threat and planetary threat and we find that both threats have substantive effects on climate change concern, with personal threat exerting a greater influence on climate change concern than planetary threat. The effects of both types of threats are also moderated by Gross Domestic Product per capita, such that threats have stronger effects on climate change concern in high-income countries than in low-income countries. Our findings contribute to the existing literature and open up new debates concerning the role of threats in climate change concern and have implications for climate change communication.

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“…Despite the signiÞ cance of environmental problems and climate changes for the humankind, these are considered to be not a primary but an important problem, as many studies in the world have shown. A study, conducted in 33 countries across the world in 2010 (Smith, Kim, & Son, 2017), conÞ rms that the environmental issues place sixth when it comes to national averages with regard to the concern about certain problems, i.e. behind economy, health care, education, poverty and crime.…”

Section: Climate Changes As the World Problemmentioning

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The student perceptions, concern and knowledge with regard to climate changes in Croatia

Nefat

Benazić

2019

Ekon. pregl. (Online)

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The aim of the paper is to discover the student perceptions of climate changes, so the sample including the Croatian students of economics has been used. The paper contains the evaluation of the importance given to climate changes in relation to other humankind problems, research on the perceptions of the main causes, serious character of the phenomenon, concerns, perceived knowledge, evaluation of sources from which their knowledge has been acquired during education, as well as their openness to new information. When related to the population of students and the complete population, the main findings do not significantly deviate from those in the recent studies of the same kind. However, compared to the earlier research on the complete population sample, this study indicates that some advancement in understanding climate changes can be noticed. The theoretical part surveys the given issue, from viewing climate changes as the world problem to presenting the trendy perceptions of the complete population; it also comprises the perceptions that are based on some studies including the complete population and the population of students in particular. The practical implication would be that, starting from their awareness of how serious climate changes are and willingness to learn more about climate changes, students should be provided with more comprehensive education to become, as future academic citizens, able to make relevant decisions on the environmental issues. The limitation of the paper refers to the small sample including the students of economics, and the original quality of the study lies in the uniquely determined issues resulting from a combination with a number of previous studies, also contributing to the research into student perceptions of climate changes. Based on the included items, further research into their relationships is recommended.

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Public Attitudes toward Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues across Countries

Cited by 59 publications

References 22 publications

Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

Historical and Contemporary Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis

The student perceptions, concern and knowledge with regard to climate changes in Croatia

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