Csölle, Kristóf (2024) We’re All in This Together: Investigating the Relationships Between Climate Policy Acceptance, Public Participation Procedures, and Group Values. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
To combat climate change, it is essential to pass pro-environmental policies in the energy sector. There are currently two large avenues in environmental psychological research which could serve to assist this goal, however with little overlap between them: value research and public participation research. To consolidate this, the current study examined the relationship between policy acceptance, and perceived alignment between the values of one’s group and one’s own values. This is done in the context of public participation. N = 52 participants took part in a 3 condition (top-down decision-making, referendum, citizen’s assembly) between subjects online vignette study, to investigate the effect of public participation procedures on perceived value alignment with decision-makers and on acceptance of pro-environmental policy (deep geothermal heating). ANOVAs to this end revealed no effect. Further, we examined the direct effect of value alignment on policy acceptance. A linear regression analysis revealed no effect. Finally, we intended to examine whether this relationship was moderated by group identification, or by familiarity with the policy subject, neither of which we found evidence for. Exploratory analyses did reveal a near-significant negative correlation with a promising effect size of value alignment on policy acceptance, as well as a significant negative moderation by group identification, only in the assembly condition. Overall, these findings are contrary to most of the research body, and highlight the need to further investigate how various value constructs function within the context of public participation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Ankone, B.A.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2024 10:17 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2024 10:17 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4215 |
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