Responsibility for Future Generations and Climate Change Mitigation: A Cross-National Study of Predictors of Pro-environmentalism in Europe

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dc.abstract.enFeeling personally responsible for climate change is a key predictor of pro-environmental action. Recent U.S.-based research finds that people more strongly endorse responsibility to protect future generations (RFG) than responsibility to reduce climate change (RCC). Here, we conceptually replicated this finding across six European countries and tested whether RFG and RCC predicted climate-relevant attitudes beyond the U.S. context. Consistent with prior work, RFG was endorsed slightly more than RCC, and both types of responsibility significantly predicted support for climate policy. Additionally, RFG and RCC were positively associated with negative emotional responses to climate change and with attributions of increasing severe weather events, both past and anticipated, to climate change. These results suggest that even in less polarized political environments, responsibility to future generations is more widely endorsed than responsibility to mitigate climate change. Still, both constructs appear psychologically meaningful and help explain variation in climate concern and policy support.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorLaw, Kyle Fiore
dc.contributor.authorWang, Zhaoquan
dc.contributor.authorElbaek, Christian T.
dc.contributor.authorFage-Butler, Antoinette
dc.contributor.authorMitkidis, Panagiotis
dc.contributor.authorGkinopoulos, Theofilos
dc.contributor.authorSzumowska, Ewa
dc.contributor.authorCzarnek, Gabriela
dc.contributor.authorWójcik, Adrian Dominik
dc.contributor.authorFulgsang, Simon
dc.contributor.authorJurgiel, Dominika
dc.contributor.authorDzimińska, Małgorzata
dc.contributor.authorWarwas, Izabela
dc.contributor.authorParzuchowski, Michał
dc.contributor.authorBiałobrzeska, Olga
dc.contributor.authorParuzel-Czachura, Mariola
dc.contributor.authorPypno-Blajda, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorPantazi, Myrto
dc.contributor.authorLits, Grégoire
dc.contributor.authorSpruyt, Bram
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Olivier
dc.contributor.authorCologna, Viktoria
dc.contributor.authorMede, Niels G.
dc.contributor.authorSyropoulos, Stylianos
dc.date.access2025-08-16
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-02T08:33:22Z
dc.date.available2025-09-02T08:33:22Z
dc.date.created2025-08-13
dc.date.issued2025-08-16
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.physical1-8
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume106
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102729
dc.identifier.eissn1522-9610
dc.identifier.issn0272-4944
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1723
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494425002129
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.rights.explanationArtykuł za paywallem
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dc.subject.enFuture generations
dc.subject.enResponsibility
dc.subject.enPolicy support
dc.subject.enEmotions
dc.subject.enWeather events
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dc.titleResponsibility for Future Generations and Climate Change Mitigation: A Cross-National Study of Predictors of Pro-environmentalism in Europe
dc.title.journalJournal of Environmental Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle