The role of chronological age in climate change attitudes, feelings, and behavioral intentions: The case of null results.

ABSTRACT: Past research has stressed the role of age and generation in climate change discourse, worries, and willingness to act. Therefore, the present paper aimed to examine the role of chronological age (as an arbitrary factor, which represents ageism) in lay people's climate change-related attitudes, feelings, and behavioral intentions. Two experiments in different countries, Australia and Israel, were conducted for this purpose. The first study examined the impact of the age of the speaker, who provides information about the climate crisis and the second examined the impact of the age of the group being blamed for the situation. Outcome variables included perceived responsibility and motivation for the current climate situation in study 1 and perceived climate change-related attitudes, feelings

SUBMITTER: Ayalon L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10284386 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature