Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses.
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| Title: | Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses. |
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| Authors: | Vesely, Stepan1 (AUTHOR) stepan.vesely@ntnu.no, Masson, Torsten2 (AUTHOR), Chokrai, Parissa2 (AUTHOR), Becker, Anna M.2 (AUTHOR), Fritsche, Immo2 (AUTHOR), Klöckner, Christian A.1 (AUTHOR), Tiberio, Lorenza3 (AUTHOR), Carrus, Giuseppe3 (AUTHOR), Panno, Angelo4 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Global Environmental Change Part A: Human & Policy Dimensions. Sep2021, Vol. 70, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Climate change, Identity (Psychology), Psychotherapy, Group identity, Social groups |
| Abstract: | • Comprehensive meta-analysis of the links between identity and environmentalism. • Environmental self-identity is strongly associated with environmentalism. • Connectedness to nature is moderately to strongly linked to environmentalism. • Place identity is only relatively modestly associated with environmentalism. • Some social identities are moderately to strongly linked to environmentalism. Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate action becomes an expression of a person's self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or identity is most relevant. Building on a comprehensive series of eight meta-analyses (using data from 188 published articles, N = 414,282 participants) this research systematically compares how strongly climate-friendly intentions and behaviors are associated with place identity, personal connectedness to nature, environmental self-identity (i.e., personal self-definition as a pro-environmentally acting person), and social identity (i.e., identification with social groups). Results suggest robust, medium-sized to strong links of both pro-environmental intentions and behaviors to people's nature connectedness (r = 0.44/0.52), environmental self-identity (r = 0.62/0.56), and identification with groups considered to support climate-friendly behavior (r = 0.48/0.51), but markedly weaker effects for identification with groups which are unrelated to environmental topics (r = 0.30/0.15) and for place identity (r = 0.18/0.32). Implications for policy interventions and psychological theory are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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