The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries.
Journal
Scientific data
ISSN: 2052-4463
Titre abrégé: Sci Data
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101640192
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Oct 2024
01 Oct 2024
Historique:
received:
15
01
2024
accepted:
06
09
2024
medline:
2
10
2024
pubmed:
2
10
2024
entrez:
1
10
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Climate change is currently one of humanity's greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries (collected between July 2022 and July 2023). In a between-subjects design, we tested 11 interventions designed to promote climate change mitigation across four outcomes: climate change belief, support for climate policies, willingness to share information on social media, and performance on an effortful pro-environmental behavioural task. Participants also reported their demographic information (e.g., age, gender) and several other independent variables (e.g., political orientation, perceptions about the scientific consensus). In the no-intervention control group, we also measured important additional variables, such as environmentalist identity and trust in climate science. We report the collaboration procedure, study design, raw and cleaned data, all survey materials, relevant analysis scripts, and data visualisations. This dataset can be used to further the understanding of psychological, demographic, and national-level factors related to individual-level climate action and how these differ across countries.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39353944
doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
pii: 10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Dataset
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1066Subventions
Organisme : Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation)
ID : P400PS_190997
Organisme : Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung)
ID : I3381
Organisme : John Templeton Foundation (JTF)
ID : 61378
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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