Vinokurova, Maria (2024) Group Identification and Participation Intention in Community-Led Adaptation Actions: The Mediating Role of Environmental Social Norms. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, demanding collective action to mitigate and adapt to its consequences. This study explores the psychological determinants that drive participation in community-led adaptation actions, focusing on social identity and social norms. Using a sample (N = 97) from the Oosterparkwijk neighborhood in Groningen, Netherlands, we explored the relationship between group identification and participation intention in a greening initiative, promoting the exchange of tiles in one’s garden with greenery. We hypothesized that group identification would be positively related to participation intention, with social norms mediating this relationship, and that injunctive norms would have a stronger association with participation intention than descriptive norms. The only significant correlations found were between group identification and social norms, and between group identification and the subdimension ‘investing resources’ of the variable participation intention. This could have been due to methodological issues, such as vague conceptualization of group identification and lacking relevance of identification with the neighbourhood for the present climate adaptation initiative. Future research should look more into subdimensions of investigated variables and ensure relevance between the concepts beforehand for instance via a pilot study.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Walker Clarke, C.J. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2024 06:24 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2024 06:24 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4138 |
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