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Enviromental Attitudes in an Intergenerational Perspective
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Abstract Environmentally oriented attitudes and values can be one of the sources of intergenerational tension or consent. Considering that climate change has become one of the major societal themes today, the issue of intergenerational tension or consent in approach to the environment is crucial. This issue ... view more
Environmentally oriented attitudes and values can be one of the sources of intergenerational tension or consent. Considering that climate change has become one of the major societal themes today, the issue of intergenerational tension or consent in approach to the environment is crucial. This issue could bring about a generational gap. Questions about intergenerational tensions bring us to age influence on environmental values. The influence of age on environmental values has been researched using the European Values Study (EVS) 1991-2017 in six countries. The cohort/age period effect is differentiated using cross-country comparison, comparison of age groups and cohorts. The results showed that the differences in environmental values are not affected by the cohort effect; age has only a weak influence. The period effect, the change in societies seems to be the major explaining factor. Great differences among European countries were found and this diversity is much higher than the effect of age.... view less
Keywords
Intergenerational relations; cohort analysis; environment; climate change; attitude; EVS; environmental behavior; comparative research; Austria; Czech Republic; Federal Republic of Germany; Netherlands; Slovakia; Spain; attitude change; attitude formation; environmental consciousness; value-orientation; demographic factors
Classification
Gerontology
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
environmental attitudes; ageing; intergenerational relations; cohort effect; European Values Study (EVS) 1991, 1999, 2008 and 2017
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 201-215
Journal
Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 67 (2019) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/se-2019-0011
ISSN
1339-9357
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0