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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.003
	Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope's emotion- and problem-focused coping functions
	van Zomeren M.; Pauls I.L.; Cohen-Chen S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	58
英文摘要	Climate change may be the most fundamental collective action problem of all time. To solve it through collective action, collective motivation is required. Yet, given the complexity and scale of the collective problem, it may be difficult for individuals to experience such motivation. Intriguingly, the experience of hope may increase collective motivation and action. We offer an integrative coping perspective on hope and collective action in the context of climate change. It explains how hope stimulates individuals’ collective motivation to act against climate change (serving a problem-focused coping function), or fails to do so (serving an emotion-focused coping function). Testing these competing hypotheses, we conducted three studies that experimentally manipulated a core antecedent of hope (i.e., the perceived possibility of change) among US participants (total N = 1020). Across the board, this manipulation increased individuals’ hope but not their collective motivation and action. Furthermore, collective motivation predicted collective action intentions across all three studies. Hoping thus seems to serve an emotion-focused coping function and hence may not increase the collective motivation required for collective action in the context of climate change. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; collective action; complexity; integrated approach
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/125171
作者单位	Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Groningen, 9712 TS, Netherlands; Philipps-University Marburg, Germany; University of Surrey, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	van Zomeren M.,Pauls I.L.,Cohen-Chen S.. Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope's emotion- and problem-focused coping functions[J],2019,58.
APA	van Zomeren M.,Pauls I.L.,&Cohen-Chen S..(2019).Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope's emotion- and problem-focused coping functions.Global Environmental change,58.
MLA	van Zomeren M.,et al."Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope's emotion- and problem-focused coping functions".Global Environmental change 58(2019).