Natural hazards, exacerbated by climate change, increasingly affect societies worldwide. The accelerating risks entail that private adaptation complement more traditional public climate change adaptation measures. Culture plays an important role in framing how individuals experience hazards and behave toward them. Yet, empirical research explicitly measuring whether and how climate change adaptation varies across cultures is lacking. To address this gap, we collect meta-analytic data on factors motivating individual flooding adaptation from 25 countries and more than 50 publications. Employing Hofstede's Cultural Rankings as a metric of national culture, we model the effect of culture on adaptation motivation of individual households using meta-regression analysis. We find a number of statistically significant relationships between culture and factors motivating private climate change adaptation. Hence, cultural context is vital to consider when designing and implementing climate change adaptation policies, simulating the uptake of individual hazard prevention measures, or integrating private adaptation in assessing costs of climate change in integrated assessment models. These findings are among the first to provide empirical evidence on the interaction effects between culture and private climate change adaptation motivation.

气候变化加剧的自然灾害日益影响着全世界的社会。日益加剧的风险意味着，私人适应将补充更多传统的公共气候变化适应措施。文化在确定个人如何经历危险以及如何应对危险方面起着重要作用。然而，缺乏明确衡量气候变化适应性以及不同文化如何变化的实证研究。为了弥补这一差距，我们收集了来自25个国家和50多个出版物的有关激发个体洪水适应因素的荟萃分析数据。利用霍夫斯泰德的文化排名作为国家文化的度量标准，我们使用元回归分析对文化对单个家庭适应动机的影响进行建模。我们发现文化与促进私人气候变化适应的因素之间存在许多具有统计意义的显着关系。因此，在设计和实施气候变化适应政策，模拟采用个体危害预防措施或将私人适应纳入评估综合评估模型中的气候变化成本时，必须考虑文化背景。这些发现是最早提供关于文化与私人气候变化适应动机之间相互作用影响的经验证据的证据。或者在综合评估模型中将私人适应纳入评估气候变化的成本。这些发现是最早提供有关文化与私人气候变化适应动机之间相互作用影响的经验证据的证据。或者在综合评估模型中将私人适应纳入评估气候变化的成本。这些发现是最早提供有关文化与私人气候变化适应动机之间相互作用影响的经验证据的证据之一。