Socio-Demographic Effects on Cultural Biases: A Nordic Study of Grid-Group Theory

Grendstad, Gunnar; Sundback, Susan

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“…The questionnaire operationalizes items that encompass the grid/group construct, which have been shown to be associated with sociodemographic characteristics (77). Pilot testing was conducted with these items with an ethnically diverse convenience sample.…”

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A community participatory study of cardiovascular health and exposure to near-highway air pollution: study design and methods

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Patton²,

Lane³

et al. 2013

Reviews on Environmental Health

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Current literature is insufficient to make causal inferences or establish dose-response relationships for traffic-related ultrafine particles (UFPs) and cardiovascular (CV) health. The Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) is a cross-sectional study of the relationship between UFP and biomarkers of CV risk. CAFEH uses a community-based participatory research framework that partners university researchers with community groups and residents. Our central hypothesis is that chronic exposure to UFP is associated with changes in biomarkers. The study enrolled more than 700 residents from three near-highway neighborhoods in the Boston metropolitan area in Massachusetts, USA. All participants completed an in-home questionnaire and a subset (440 +) completed an additional supplemental questionnaire and provided biomarkers. Air pollution monitoring was conducted by a mobile laboratory equipped with fast-response instruments, at fixed sites, and inside the homes of selected study participants. We seek to develop improved estimates of UFP exposure by combining spatiotemporal models of ambient UFP with data on participant time-activity and housing characteristics. Exposure estimates will then be compared with biomarker levels to ascertain associations. This article describes our study design and methods and presents preliminary findings from east Somerville, one of the three study communities.

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A community participatory study of cardiovascular health and exposure to near-highway air pollution: study design and methods

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Patton²,

Lane³

et al. 2013

Reviews on Environmental Health

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“…With regard to egoistic values, because it has been shown that men are more individualistic than women ( Grendstad and Sundback, 2003 ), it is assumed that men will more strongly endorse egoistic values than women will. The sparse empirical evidence related to this hypothesis, however, seems to show no difference in egoistic values by gender (i.e., Ndofirepi, 2019 ; d = 0.11).…”

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“…Moving on to the age hypothesis, younger people are thought to be more concerned about environmental issues than older people, partly because environmental issues have been prominent throughout young people’s lives ( Grendstad and Wollebaek, 1998 ), and partly because the former are less integrated into the existing social order ( Van Liere and Dunlap, 1980 ; Grendstad and Sundback, 2003 ).…”

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The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries

2020

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Given the importance of environmental values (altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic) to pro-environmental behavior, it would be useful to segment the population – an approach known as market segmentation – to tailor pro-environmental messages more effectively. Sociodemographic variables are popular targets for segmentation, as such variables are often knowable in the absence of more nuanced information about individuals. However, evidence for the relationship between sociodemographics and environmental values is sparse, and contradictory. We examined the extent to which popular sociodemographic variables (gender, age, income, education, urbanization level, and political orientation) were predictive of environmental values for 11,820 participants across seven European countries. Overall, sociodemographics were hardly related to environmental values. Only gender and political orientation were weakly but significantly related to environmental values, whereby men and right-wingers showed weaker altruistic and biospheric, and stronger egoistic, values than women and left-wingers. We conclude that sociodemographic variables cannot be considered a suitable proxy for environmental values, and thus that behavior-change campaigns might be more impactful when focused on alternative segmentation strategies in relation to environmental aims.

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“…To operationalize the grid/group construct we used items developed originally for use in the Nordic countries which are independent of any specific political proposals and have previously been associated with socio-demographic characteristics. (34) We also included items from the Multi-Dimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC),(35) and the Perceived Stress Scale. (36) Because of limited space on the questionnaire, we used a truncated version of the grid-group scale, excluding a “fatalism” sub-scale and using selected items from what were originally separate “hierarchy” and “egalitarianism” sub-scales.…”

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Gender, Ethnicity and Environmental Risk Perception Revisited: The Importance of Residential Location

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Objectives Studies in the U.S. have found that white men are less concerned about pollution than are women or people of other ethnicity. These studies have not assessed respondents’ proximity to localized sources of pollution. Our objective was to assess lay perceptions of risk from air pollution in an ethnically diverse sample in which proximity to a major perceptible source of pollution is known. Methods Cross sectional interview study of combined area probability and convenience sample of individuals 40 and older in the Boston area, selected according to proximity to high traffic controlled access highways. Results Of 697 respondents 46% were white, 37% Asian (mostly Chinese), 6.3% African-American, 6.3% Latino, and 7.6% other ethnicity. While white respondents, and particularly white men, were less concerned about air pollution than others, this effect disappeared when controlling for distance from the highway. White men were slightly less supportive than others of government policy to control pollution Conclusions The “white male” effect may in part be accounted for by the greater likelihood of minority respondents to live near perceptible localized sources of pollution.

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Socio-Demographic Effects on Cultural Biases: A Nordic Study of Grid-Group Theory

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

A community participatory study of cardiovascular health and exposure to near-highway air pollution: study design and methods

A community participatory study of cardiovascular health and exposure to near-highway air pollution: study design and methods

The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries

Gender, Ethnicity and Environmental Risk Perception Revisited: The Importance of Residential Location

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