Abstract
The aim was to investigate effects of different groups of individuals (residents, tourists, experts, decision makers and members of tourist industry) and demographic variables (gender, age, education) on climate change-related concerns, beliefs and emotions. In line with the predictions: 1) Experts were shown to be least concerned for and afraid of climate change impact; 2) Youngest participants were found to be most, and oldest least, concerned for their future; 3) Women were shown to be more concerned for and afraid of the consequences of climate change; and 4) Men and the least educated participants believed their jobs to be more threatened by the environmental laws and protection, and the latter ones believed moreover that the claims about climate change are exaggerated. Implications of these findings for value orientations and their relationships to environmental concerns, beliefs and emotions are discussed.
Highlights
Climate change is a continuing present day issue
Based on the findings reviewed above the aim was to investigate effects of different groups of individuals and demographic variables on participants’ climate-change-related concerns, beliefs and emotions, including the following two hypotheses: Hypothesis 1
Climate change-related concerns [29] were measured with 12 self-report items responding to the statement, “I am concerned about climate change because of the consequences for: myself, my lifestyle, my health, my future, all people, people in my country, children, my children, plants, marine life, birds, other animals.”
Summary
Heat waves and storms and their impact on society reach us almost every day. These reports imply a threat to our present way of living, urging for responsebility, pro-environmental behaviour and ecologically sustainable progress. There is an increasing awareness that climate change is an ecological and economic dilemma, and a social and psychological one [1,2,3], meaning that drastic policies are necessary to prevent a serious lack of natural resources by promoting a sustainable behaviour [4]. Due to the embedded conflict between an individual level of short-term self-interest (e.g. accumulating damaging gases by driving the car a lot) and long-term collectivistic natural resource management (to decrease urban air pollution), the climate change issues can be conceptualized as resource dilemmas, involving a conflict between individual and collective interests [7]
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