Held, Stina Marie (2022) Relationship of Biospheric and Egoistic Values with Acceptability of Pathways to Mitigate Climate Change. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proposed four pathways that offer different approaches to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The implementation of such approaches can only succeed when public acceptability is given. Public acceptability is influenced by values and therefore, this study investigates the relationship of biospheric and egoistic values with the acceptability of two specific pathways, which differ largely in the measures taken to mitigate climate change. The pre-registered study (N=226) obtained results that suggest that biospheric values have a positive relation with pathway A, a negative relation with pathway B, and are associated with a preference for pathway A over pathway B. The results obtained regarding egoistic values showed a non-significant relation with the acceptability of pathway A, with the acceptability of pathway B, and regarding the preference of one pathway over the other. This could be due to several factors, such as the limited reliability, or the sample with restricted generalizability. Further limitations and resulting implications are discussed at the end of the study.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Goersch, R. and Steg, E.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2022 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2022 07:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1299 |
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