The IPCC's report on Global Warming of 1.5°C positioned climate change as one of the most worrying issues mankind has ever faced. Although many people worry about climate change, there is still much unknown about the origins and outcomes of worry about climate change; particularly, whether and how it can motivate specific and personal climate actions. The current paper investigates this critical relationship with data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (44,387 respondents from 23 countries). As expected, the more individuals worried about climate change, the more likely they were to take and support climate action. Yet, the process through which this association occurred differed between actions. Specifically, worry was both directly and indirectly, via feelings of personal responsibility to reduce climate change, associated with climate policy support; whereas worry was mostly indirectly associated with personal climate mitigation behaviours, via personal responsibility. In addition, worry about climate change appears partly rooted in biospheric values (i.e., caring about nature and the environment), and biospheric values were also clearly, directly and positively related to personal climate mitigation behaviours. The relationships were highly consistent across countries but varied somewhat in size. The results show how generic feelings about climate change can directly and indirectly affect both climate policy support and personal climate mitigation behaviours, thereby providing critical insights for science and policy making.

IPCC关于1.5°C全球变暖的报告将气候变化定位为人类有史以来最令人担忧的问题之一。尽管许多人担心气候变化，但对气候变化的担忧的根源和后果仍然未知。特别是，它是否以及如何激发特定和个人的动机气候行动。本论文使用欧洲社会调查第8轮（来自23个国家/地区的44387名受访者）的数据调查了这种关键关系。不出所料，人们对气候变化的担忧越多，他们采取和支持气候行动的可能性就越大。然而，这种关联发生的过程在动作之间是不同的。具体而言，担心是通过减少气候变化的个人责任感和气候政策支持而直接或间接地引起的；而担忧主要通过个人责任间接与个人缓解气候行为有关。此外，对气候变化的担忧似乎部分源于生物圈价值（即关心自然和环境），而生物圈价值也很明显，与个人减缓气候变化行为直接且积极相关。各国之间的关系高度一致，但规模有所不同。结果表明，对气候变化的普遍感受如何直接或间接影响气候政策支持和个人减缓气候变化的行为，从而为科学和政策制定提供重要的见解。