Voluntary climate change mitigation actions of young adults: a classification of mitigators through latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT: Encouraging individuals to take action is important for the overall success of climate change mitigation. Campaigns promoting climate change mitigation could address particular groups of the population on the basis of what kind of mitigation actions the group is already taking. To increase the knowledge of such groups performing similar mitigation actions we conducted a population-based cross-sectional study in Finland. The study population comprised 1623 young adults who returned a self-administered questionnaire (response rate 64%). Our aims were to identify groups of people engaged in similar climate change mitigation actions and to study the gender differences in the grouping. We also determined if socio-demographic characteristics can predict group membership. We performed latent clas

SUBMITTER: Korkala EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4108349 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature