Beliefs about Climate Change and Their Relationship with Environmental Beliefs and Sustainable Behavior: A View from Rural Communities
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Method
2.1. Participants
2.2. Scales and Instruments
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Urban (n = 66) | Rural (n = 212) | Indigenous (n = 110) | |||
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Sex | f | % | f | % | f | % |
Male | 34 | 51.5 | 98 | 46.2 | 33 | 30.0 |
Female | 32 | 48.5 | 114 | 53.8 | 77 | 70.0 |
Education | f | % | f | % | f | % |
Primary | - | - | 6 | 2.8 | 5 | 4.5 |
Secondary | 11 | 16.7 | 188 | 88.7 | 90 | 81.8 |
Technical | 9 | 13.6 | 5 | 2.4 | 13 | 11.8 |
Technological | 4 | 6.1 | 6 | 2.8 | - | - |
Undergraduate | 34 | 51.5 | 4 | 1.9 | 2 | 1.8 |
Postgraduate | 8 | 12.1 | 3 | 1.4 | - | - |
Stratum | f | % | f | % | f | % |
1 | 15 | 22.7 | 138 | 65.1 | 96 | 87.3 |
2 | 41 | 62.1 | 68 | 32.1 | 12 | 10.9 |
3 | 10 | 15.1 | 6 | 2.8 | 2 | 1.8 |
Sector | f | % | f | % | f | % |
Urban | 49 | 74.2 | 112 | 52.8 | 3 | 2.7 |
Rural | 17 | 25.8 | 100 | 47.2 | 107 | 97.3 |
Do you do activities where you are in contact with nature during your free time? | f | % | f | % | f | % |
Yes | 58 | 87.9 | 185 | 87.3 | 95 | 86.4 |
No | 8 | 12.1 | 27 | 12.7 | 15 | 13.6 |
M | SD | α | |
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Belief in the natural cause of climate change | 2.40 | 1.45 | - |
Belief in the anthropic cause of climate change | 4.18 | 1.12 | - |
Risk perception of climate change | 3.55 | 0.52 | 0.68 |
Environmental beliefs—anthropocentrism dimension | 2.93 | 0.28 | 0.71 |
Environmental beliefs—egobiocentrism dimension | 4.15 | 0.18 | 0.64 |
Environmental beliefs—biosphereism dimension | 3.84 | 0.37 | 0.52 |
Sustainable behavior | 3.48 | 0.56 | 0.88 |
Pro-ecological behavior | 3.23 | 0.68 | 0.80 |
Altruism | 2.97 | 0.66 | 0.76 |
Frugality | 3.31 | 0.86 | 0.69 |
Equity | 4.23 | 0.70 | 0.78 |
Variables (Groups) | Urban (n = 66) | Rural (n = 212) | Indigenous (n = 110) | H de Kruskal Wallis | Sig. | |||
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X | DE. | X | DE. | X | DE. | |||
Belief in natural cause of climate change | 2.77 | 0.65 | 2.87 | 0.60 | 3.17 | 0.67 | 0.28 | 0.59 |
Belief in anthropic cause of climate change | 3.83 | 0.39 | 3.66 | 0.46 | 3.44 | 0.41 | 9.55 | * 0.00 |
Risk perception of climate change | 3.46 | 0.51 | 3.57 | 0.51 | 3.58 | 0.58 | 3.75 | * 0.05 |
Environmental beliefs—anthropocentrism | 2.41 | 0.80 | 2.83 | 0.95 | 3.47 | 0.91 | 12.40 | * 0.00 |
Environmental beliefs—egobiocentrism | 4.31 | 0.72 | 4.12 | 0.68 | 4.11 | 0.70 | 5.24 | * 0.02 |
Sustainable behavior | 3.84 | 0.40 | 3.44 | 0.53 | 3.35 | 0.63 | 30.29 | * 0.00 |
Pro-ecological behaviors | 3.76 | 0.54 | 3.11 | 0.64 | 3.16 | 0.71 | 46.46 | * 0.00 |
Altruism | 3.04 | 0.55 | 2.98 | 0.62 | 2.91 | 0.80 | 0.77 | 0.38 |
Frugality | 3.84 | 0.59 | 3.24 | 0.85 | 3.15 | 0.91 | 27.65 | * 0.00 |
Equity | 4.47 | 0.42 | 4.30 | 0.68 | 3.98 | 0.81 | 1.51 | 0.22 |
A | B | C | D | E | F | |
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A. Sustainable behavior | −0.105 * | 0.131 ** | 0.321 ** | 0.333 ** | ||
B. Belief in natural causes of climate change | −0.234 ** | −0.108 * | 0.257 ** | |||
C. Belief in anthropic causes of climate change | 0.205 ** | 0.202 ** | −0.101 * | |||
D. Risk perception of climate change | 0.430 ** | 0.378 ** | ||||
E. Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.160 ** | |||||
F. Environmental beliefs—Anthropocentrism |
Dependent and Independent Variables by Regression | Standardized Coefficients | R2 | p-Value | |
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Beta | Valor p | |||
Sustainable behavior | 0.16 | 0.00 | ||
Risk perception of climate change | 0.22 | 0.00 | ||
Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.22 | 0.00 | ||
Pro-ecological behavior | 0.09 | 0.00 | ||
Risk perception of climate change | 0.17 | 0.00 | ||
Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.18 | 0.00 | ||
Altruism | 0.04 | 0.01 | ||
Risk perception of climate change | 0.11 | 0.06 | ||
Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.12 | 0.04 | ||
Frugality | 0.12 | 0.00 | ||
Risk perception of climate change | 0.19 | 0.00 | ||
Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.13 | 0.02 | ||
Equity | 0.20 | 0.00 | ||
Mainly natural | −0.13 | 0.01 | ||
Risk perception of climate change | 0.21 | 0.00 | ||
Environmental beliefs—Egobiocentrism | 0.27 | 0.00 |
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Sierra-Barón, W.; Navarro, O.; Amézquita Naranjo, D.K.; Teres Sierra, E.D.; Narváez González, C.M. Beliefs about Climate Change and Their Relationship with Environmental Beliefs and Sustainable Behavior: A View from Rural Communities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5326. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095326
Sierra-Barón W, Navarro O, Amézquita Naranjo DK, Teres Sierra ED, Narváez González CM. Beliefs about Climate Change and Their Relationship with Environmental Beliefs and Sustainable Behavior: A View from Rural Communities. Sustainability. 2021; 13(9):5326. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095326
Chicago/Turabian StyleSierra-Barón, Willian, Oscar Navarro, Diana Katherine Amézquita Naranjo, Eylyn Daniela Teres Sierra, and Carol Marcela Narváez González. 2021. "Beliefs about Climate Change and Their Relationship with Environmental Beliefs and Sustainable Behavior: A View from Rural Communities" Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5326. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095326