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DOI	10.1038/s41558-019-0463-3
	Children can foster climate change concern among their parents
	Lawson D.F.; Stevenson K.T.; Peterson M.N.; Carrier S.J.; L. Strnad R.; Seekamp E.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1758678X
EISSN	1758-6798
卷号	9 期号:6 页码:458-+
英文摘要	The collective action that is required to mitigate and adapt to climate change is extremely difficult to achieve, largely due to socio-ideological biases that perpetuate polarization over climate change1,2. Because climate change perceptions in children seem less susceptible to the influence of worldview or political context3, it may be possible for them to inspire adults towards higher levels of climate concern, and in turn, collective action4. Child-to-parent intergenerational learning—that is, the transfer of knowledge, attitudes or behaviours from children to parents5—may be a promising pathway to overcoming socio-ideological barriers to climate concern5. Here we present an experimental evaluation of an educational intervention designed to build climate change concern among parents indirectly through their middle school-aged children in North Carolina, USA. Parents of children in the treatment group expressed higher levels of climate change concern than parents in the control group. The effects were strongest among male parents and conservative parents, who, consistent with previous research1, displayed the lowest levels of climate concern before the intervention. Daughters appeared to be especially effective in influencing parents. Our results suggest that intergenerational learning may overcome barriers to building climate concern. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
学科领域	Environmental Sciences;Environmental Studies;Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000469265500015
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/78341
作者单位	Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, North Carolina State University, Turner House, Raleigh, NC, United States; Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States; Deparment of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lawson D.F.,Stevenson K.T.,Peterson M.N.,et al. Children can foster climate change concern among their parents[J],2019,9(6):458-+.
APA	Lawson D.F.,Stevenson K.T.,Peterson M.N.,Carrier S.J.,L. Strnad R.,&Seekamp E..(2019).Children can foster climate change concern among their parents.Nature Climate Change,9(6),458-+.
MLA	Lawson D.F.,et al."Children can foster climate change concern among their parents".Nature Climate Change 9.6(2019):458-+.