Schmidt, Tammo (2024) The Moderating Role of Environmental Identity on the Relationship Between Political Ideology and Public Acceptability of Direct Air Carbon Capture with Storage (DACCS). Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Negative Emission Technologies have been introduced as means to decarbonize the atmosphere by filtering carbon directly out of the air and storing it over a long period. Previous literature suggests that a lack of public acceptability is one of the major roadblocks to the implementation of these technologies. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate which variables can predict public acceptability by focusing on a single negative emission technology, called direct air carbon capture with storage (DACCS). We were specifically interested in whether and how people’s political ideology and environmental identity play a role in the public acceptability of DACCS. A moderation model is proposed that considers a person’s political ideology from left to right as the independent variable and environmental identity as the moderating variable. In a convenience sample of 150 participants, no main effect of political ideology on the public acceptability of DACCS was found to be significant. However, environmental identity held significant negative predictive power over an individual’s acceptability of DACCS. This means that a stronger environmental identity led to less acceptance of the technology. No moderation effect could be observed. The present study added to the extremely scarce body of literature on the public acceptability of DACCS by showing that environmental identity is an important determinant. Further research could validate these findings, place environmental identity in different theoretical frameworks, and test it in the general population. Especially environmental values should be integrated into future research to understand how they influence political ideology and the acceptability of DACCS. Keywords: environmental identity, political ideology, public acceptability, negative emission technologies, DACCS,
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Lee, C.Y. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 13:54 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2024 13:54 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4099 |
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