Where Does an Individual’s Willingness to Act on Alleviating the Climate Crisis in Korea Arise from?

Abstract

Climate change is the result of anthropogenic activities and will lead to widespread and rapid changes on Earth in the following decades. The climate change crisis has led to economic, social, and cultural crises worldwide. This study analyzes the factors impacting the voluntary actions of individuals to mitigate the climate change crisis. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire survey from 650 Korean adults. Statistical analysis was performed using the statistical program IBM SPSS Statistics 25. The results show that the factors affecting an individual’s willingness to act on climate change mitigation were gender, social class, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived obstacles, environmental attitude, and social exclusion. In particular, the results show that social exclusion had a moderating effect on the severity of the willingness to act on climate change mitigation. Regarding the moderating effect of social exclusion, significance was determined for gender, social class, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived obstacles, environmental attitude, and social exclusion (R2 = 0.617). The government should thus make efforts to reduce social exclusion in order to strengthen individuals’ willingness to act on climate change mitigation.

Exploring the Relationship between Chinese Urban Residents’ Perceptions of Sustainable Consumption and Their Efficiency Behavior: A Mediation and Moderation Analysis Based on the Social Practice Approach

“…Green attributes upgrade the product's beneficial attributes and prompt people to generate positive emotions about green products and the ecological environment [75]. Although few studies on the relationship between sustainability perceptions and efficiency behavior were executed, the influence of green products and services on green consumption has been confirmed [78]. Yang et al [79] argued that the fundamental reason Chinese consumers purchase green products is that they can perceive more environmental utility and environmental values from green products.…”