Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.

This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Su...

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Autores principales:	Thea Gregersen, Rouven Doran, Gisela Böhm, Wouter Poortinga
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:eb5630b57174495f8a9332e30b0030522021-12-02T20:05:31ZOutcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252105https://doaj.org/article/eb5630b57174495f8a9332e30b0030522021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252105https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use.Thea GregersenRouven DoranGisela BöhmWouter PoortingaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0252105 (2021)
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description	This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use.
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title	Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
title_short	Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
title_full	Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
title_fullStr	Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
title_full_unstemmed	Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
title_sort	outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.
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Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors.

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