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Assessing the Effects of a Communication Intervention on Climate Change Action Motivation Using a Health and Safety Risk Management Framework.

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正題名/作者:	Assessing the Effects of a Communication Intervention on Climate Change Action Motivation Using a Health and Safety Risk Management Framework./
作者:	Mullins-Jaime, Charmaine.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (219 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02B.
標題:	Environmental education. -
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ISBN:	9798534699371

Assessing the Effects of a Communication Intervention on Climate Change Action Motivation Using a Health and Safety Risk Management Framework.
Mullins-Jaime, Charmaine.

Assessing the Effects of a Communication Intervention on Climate Change Action Motivation Using a Health and Safety Risk Management Framework. - 1 online resource (219 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

Despite 40 years of warnings, there has been little progress in making the changes to economy and lifestyle needed to mitigate climate change. According to many of the world's leading scientists on the issue, if greenhouse emissions are not dramatically lowered, it will result in "untold human suffering" (Ripple et al., 2019). The purpose of this study was to test the impact of a climate change communication that framed the crises as a health and safety problem that must be mitigated through a health and safety risk management framework to promote and facilitate participant motivation to act. The intervention was designed to appeal to all worldviews and address the most common psychological barriers to action on climate change found in the literature.An original online survey instrument was used to gain understanding of participant worldview, their concern for climate change, their belief that climate change is human caused, their belief that humans can resolve the crisis, their current motivation to act to mitigate climate change, current actions being taken to mitigate climate change, and their perception of climate change within a certain context: health and safety issue, political issue, environmental issue, moral/ethical issue, scientific issue, economic issue, and agricultural issue. Within the survey instrument, participants were exposed to a communication "intervention" that provided factual information on climate science that has been found to be effective in shifting perceptions of climate change to be more receptive of adopting mitigating solutions. In addition to other more traditional contexts such as viewing climate change as a threat to the economy and ecosystems, climate change was presented as a health and safety hazard, one that affects people in North America today. Participants were offered resolution to the crisis through adoption of a risk management framework developed by the author. Perceptions and motivations were assessed pre- and post-communication intervention to understand if and how they have changed. Those who viewed climate change as a health and safety issue had the highest levels of motivation post-intervention. The intervention was effective in shifting perceptions of climate change as an issue where more people viewed climate change as a health and safety issue being a top priority, post-intervention. This study found the intervention was effective in increasing motivation to mitigate, as well as in shifting fundamental beliefs surrounding motivation including anthropogenicity, perception of climate change as a personal threat, and belief in the efficacy of human actions. Further, this study showed the communication intervention improved general knowledge and awareness of climate change and shifted the type of preferred mitigating long-term actions towards more impactful carbon eliminating types of choices. Finally, the intervention appealed to all worldviews and increased motivation with mean motivation score increases in all worldview categories, post-intervention. The communication intervention was highly effective in shifting beliefs and motivation to mitigate climate change, indicating that framing climate change as a health and safety problem that should be managed through safety management techniques is an important framework, one that can be the linchpin of the sustainability movement and a springboard for personal climate change action.It is recommended this communication intervention be offered to communities and workplaces throughout the United States as part of a national public and occupational health and safety communication strategy on climate change prevention. Future research should build on this study testing the efficacy of this safety management framework vs a non-safety management framework through a communication intervention.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798534699371Subjects--Topical Terms:

528212
Environmental education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Climate action communicationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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