TY - JOUR
T1 - Wives influence climate change mitigation behaviours in married-couple households
T2 - Insights from Taiwan
AU - Hung, Li San
AU - Bayrak, Mucahid Mustafa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2019/12/6
Y1 - 2019/12/6
N2 - Mitigating climate change requires collective action of various sectors and on multiple scales, including individual behavioural changes among citizens. Although numerous studies have examined factors that influence individuals' mitigation behaviours, much less attention has been given to interpersonal influence. Children have been suggested to influence parents' climate change concerns; however, how the interactions between couples-typically the primary decision-makers in married-couple households-influence each other's climate change concerns has seldom been discussed. In this study, we surveyed married heterosexual couples to investigate the interdependency of husbands' and wives' motivations for behavioural change to mitigate climate change. We found that wives' psychological constructs, including climate change risk perception, self-efficacy, and gender role attitudes, demonstrated stronger effects on their husbands' motivation than did husbands' own constructs on their own motivation, whereas husbands' psychological constructs did not influence their wives' motivation. Our results suggest the importance of wives' role in motivating household climate change mitigation behaviours.
AB - Mitigating climate change requires collective action of various sectors and on multiple scales, including individual behavioural changes among citizens. Although numerous studies have examined factors that influence individuals' mitigation behaviours, much less attention has been given to interpersonal influence. Children have been suggested to influence parents' climate change concerns; however, how the interactions between couples-typically the primary decision-makers in married-couple households-influence each other's climate change concerns has seldom been discussed. In this study, we surveyed married heterosexual couples to investigate the interdependency of husbands' and wives' motivations for behavioural change to mitigate climate change. We found that wives' psychological constructs, including climate change risk perception, self-efficacy, and gender role attitudes, demonstrated stronger effects on their husbands' motivation than did husbands' own constructs on their own motivation, whereas husbands' psychological constructs did not influence their wives' motivation. Our results suggest the importance of wives' role in motivating household climate change mitigation behaviours.
KW - Actor-partner interdependence model
KW - Climate change mitigation
KW - Gender
KW - Intrahousehold dynamics
KW - Sustainability behaviour
KW - Taiwan
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-9326/ab5543
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/ab5543
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081701892
SN - 1748-9326
VL - 14
JO - Environmental Research Letters
JF - Environmental Research Letters
IS - 12
M1 - 124034
ER -