Climate Actions: China & NZ
Description
This dataset contains survey responses from 1,034 young adults aged 18–30 years, including 520 participants from China and 514 from New Zealand. The survey was designed to assess a range of psychological variables related to climate change, including emotional responses (e.g., experienced emotions, anticipatory emotions, and emotional affinity towards nature), cognitive variables (e.g., biospheric and altruistic values, environmental self-efficacy), and self-reported willingness to engage in various high-impact climate change mitigation behaviours (5 transportation, 8 dietary). The dataset includes anonymized participant responses and variable labels. The respective publications provide full details of the measures used.
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Steps to reproduce
This survey recruited young adult New Zealand and Chinese residents through the online platform Qualtrics. The questionnaire was initially created in English. For Chinese participants, the questionnaire was translated into Mandarin. Two scholars who were proficient in English and Chinese did the translation work. One of them translated the English version into Chinese first, and then the other translated the Chinese version back into English. A third psychologist whose native language was English then compared the two versions of the English version to ensure they were semantically consistent. After comparison and adjustment, a final version of the Chinese questionnaire was created. In both countries, participants were presented with an information sheet which outlined the purpose of the study. After giving their informed consent, participants completed an online questionnaire that took approximately 15 minutes to complete. The questionnaire was organized into several sections assessing demographics, biospheric values, self-efficacy, eco-emotions, and willingness to engage in a range of climate change mitigation actions. After completing the survey, participants received a small monetary reimbursement arranged through Qualtrics.
Institutions
- University of Canterbury
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Funders
- Internal research funding from the University of Canterbury.