Cultural determinants of climate change opinion: familism predicts climate beliefs and policy support among US Latinos

Pearson, Adam R.; Bacio, Guadalupe A.; Naiman, Sarah M.; Romero‐Canyas, Rainer; Schuldt, Jonathon P.

doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03165-2

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“…Survey designers also must ensure that they are including all relevant measures. Pearson et al (2021) demonstrate that Latinos based their climate change beliefs on familism, rather than ideology and education; this counters the prevailing wisdom about correlates of climate change beliefs (e.g., Hornsey et al 2016) and shows that studies must measure what matters to each subgroup. Similarly, W.…”

Section: Survey Implementationmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…A probability or quota sample requires that a sufficient number of members of the group are available. For example, Pearson et al (2021) compared the climate change beliefs of non-Latino whites and Latinos by drawing a probability sample that included additional Latino respondents beyond the initial sample (i.e., an oversample). This oversampling was possible because Latinos constitute a large share of the American population, and existing census data differentiating Latinos from non-Latinos allowed the researchers to identify the oversample.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations

Bayes¹,

Druckman²,

Safarpour³

2022

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Scholars have long documented unequal access to the benefits of science among different groups in the United States. Particular populations, such as low-income, non–white people, and Indigenous people, fare worse when it comes to health care, infectious diseases, climate change, and access to technology. These types of inequities can be partially addressed with targeted interventions aimed at facilitating access to scientific information. Doing so requires knowledge about what different groups think when it comes to relevant scientific topics. Yet data collection efforts for the study of most science-based issues do not include enough respondents from these populations. We discuss this gap and offer an overview of pertinent sampling and administrative considerations in studying underserved populations. A sustained effort to study diverse populations, including through community partnerships, can help to address extant inequities.

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Section: Survey Implementationmentioning

confidence: 64%

Section: Sampling Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations

Bayes¹,

Druckman²,

Safarpour³

2022

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…Climate change has grown increasingly polarized in several major emitting nations since the 1990s, including the United States (Lewis et al, 2019). Nevertheless, political ideology is a weaker predictor of climate attitudes, beliefs, and policy support within many U.S. frontline communities compared to nonfrontline communities (Ballew et al, 2021;Pearson, Bacio, et al, 2021;. Social beliefs about inequality and individual (vs. collective) responsibility for addressing climate change can also influence how people to climate risks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.

Pearson

White

Nogueira

et al. 2023

American Psychologist

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Climate change poses unique and substantial threats to public health and well-being, from heat stress, flooding, and the spread of infectious disease to food and water insecurity, conflict, displacement, and direct health hazards linked to fossil fuels. These threats are especially acute for frontline communities. Addressing climate change and its unequal impacts requires psychologists to consider temporal and spatial dimensions of health, compound risks, as well as structural sources of vulnerability implicated by few other public health challenges. In this review, we consider climate change as a unique context for the study of health inequities and the roles of psychologists and health care practitioners in addressing it. We conclude by discussing the research infrastructure needed to broaden current understanding of these inequities, including new cross-disciplinary, institutional, and community partnerships, and offer six practical recommendations for advancing the psychological study of climate health equity and its societal relevance.

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“…Has Children. Familism and family obligation has been shown to predict climate change opinion and concern, especially among communities of color, where family-as-referent and familial obligation increase perceptions and concern (Pearson et al 2021). Although not extensive, we control for a portion of this effect using a dummy variable to depict whether an individual has children.…”

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Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

Whitley

Bowers

2023

Sociological Inquiry

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Although researchers have broadly addressed how race, party identification, political ideology, and binary gender categories influence climate change opinions, little attention has been paid to the relationship between sexuality and gender variance (LGBTQ+ identity broadly) and climate change perceptions. Using a quota‐based survey from 2022 that approximates the US population on key demographic characteristics and oversamples LGBTQ+ individuals, we assess the degree to which LGBTQ+ individuals' climate change beliefs and risk perceptions are comparable to cisgender, heterosexual (cishet) individuals, specifically examining climate change beliefs, the perceived threat climate change poses, and worry about climate change. We argue that LGBTQ+ individuals' views are likely to be distinct from their cisgender heterosexual (cishet) counterparts for three reasons: climate change is likely to exacerbate existing structural inequalities, create disaster responses that reinforce heteronormative and discriminatory patterns, and activate LGBTQ+ political culture. We find evidence that LGBTQ+ individuals express higher agreement with climate change beliefs, identify climate change as a greater threat, and worry more about climate change when compared to their cishet counterparts.

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Cultural determinants of climate change opinion: familism predicts climate beliefs and policy support among US Latinos

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations

Studying Science Inequities: How to Use Surveys to Study Diverse Populations

Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.

Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions*

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