Czech students and mitigation of global warming: beliefs and willingness to take action
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F20%3A73603229" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/20:73603229 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/20:73603229
Result on the web
<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333183115" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333183115</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1694140" target="_blank" >10.1080/13504622.2019.1694140</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech students and mitigation of global warming: beliefs and willingness to take action
Original language description
The future life-styles and pro-environmental behaviour of today’s younger students will be a cardinal factor in mitigating the severity of projected climate change. In this study, Czech students at upper-primary and secondary-school levels responded to a set of covertly paired statements designed to assess their beliefs concerning the usefulness of actions that might ameliorate global warming and the degree to which they are willing to act. Relations between their beliefs and willingness to act were assessed by means of an index of Potential Effectiveness of Education (PEE). The results show that Czech students are generally sceptical about the usefulness of the actions suggested and are among the less willing, in a wider international context, to participate in actual processes that might ameliorate global warming. However, Czech secondary-school students, particularly females, are significantly more willing to act than upper-primary students. Although relatively high PEE values were observed, Czech students tend to underestimate the role of personal consumption and male students in particular are not willing to take actions that involve no immediate personal benefit. Our results thus emphasize the importance of adjusting school curricula by promoting insight into the topic of global warming, and extending that understanding into practical measures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Education Research
ISSN
1350-4622
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
864-889
UT code for WoS article
000501107400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076427639