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DOI	10.1038/s41467-021-24245-y
	Ten-year panel data confirm generation gap but climate beliefs increase at similar rates across ages
	Milfont T.L.; Zubielevitch E.; Milojev P.; Sibley C.G.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Accumulating evidence indicates that climate change awareness and concern has increased globally, but commentators suggest a climate change generation gap whereby younger people care more about climate change than older people. Here we use a decade of panel data from 56,513 New Zealanders to test whether belief that “Climate change is real” and “Climate change is caused by humans” increased over the 2009-2018 period; and whether changes are uniform across 12 five-year birth cohorts spanning those born from 1936 to 1995. Results confirm a generation gap in mean (intercept) climate change beliefs but not in over-time increase (slope). The generation gap occurs because older cohorts started from a lower initial belief level (circa 2009), but all age cohorts increased their belief level at a similar rate over the last decade; and these results were not qualified by respondents’ gender. The findings offer hope for collective action that bridges efforts across generations. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; collective action; elderly population; psychology; adult; article; climate change; female; gender; human; male; New Zealander; New Zealand
来源期刊	Nature Communications
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/250658
作者单位	School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Waikato, New Zealand; School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Milfont T.L.,Zubielevitch E.,Milojev P.,et al. Ten-year panel data confirm generation gap but climate beliefs increase at similar rates across ages[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Milfont T.L.,Zubielevitch E.,Milojev P.,&Sibley C.G..(2021).Ten-year panel data confirm generation gap but climate beliefs increase at similar rates across ages.Nature Communications,12(1).
MLA	Milfont T.L.,et al."Ten-year panel data confirm generation gap but climate beliefs increase at similar rates across ages".Nature Communications 12.1(2021).