Muranyi, Bianca (2022) The Influence of Public Participation and Self-efficacy on Project Acceptability. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Dietary changes have been discussed as a proper way of reversing the damage to the environment created by human activity, but policies that aim for that are highly controversial among the public. Previous research showed that inviting the public to participate in the decision-making process for such policies will lead to higher acceptability of the project. Nevertheless, factors such as people’s values and their self-efficacy in environmental behaviour should also be evaluated as influencers on project acceptability as they determine people’s goals and diligence in trying to determine them. In the current study, we explore the effect of introducing values in public participation discussions, with the hypothesis that egoistic people will view the project as more acceptable if personal consequences are discussed, while biospheric people will not very in their acceptance across conditions. Moreover, self-efficacy was hypothesized to play a role in mediating the relationship between having biospheric values and project acceptability. We conducted a between-subjects online experiment (N=122) in the form of a survey which manipulated public participation through presenting the participants with scenarios which reflected different values. Results showed that there was no difference in project acceptability between participants in conditions congruent with their values and the ones in other conditions. Self-efficacy was found to mediate the relationship between biospheric values and project acceptability. It is concluded that value-framed scenarios might not play a big role in project acceptability and that self-efficacy is worth further exploring as a mediator between the biospheric values and project acceptability. Keywords: public participation, values, self-efficacy, project acceptability, climate change
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Perlaviciute, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2022 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2022 15:35 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/76 |
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