While several studies show an association between flooding experience and climate change engagement, a few show no evidence of such a link. Here, we explore the potential that this inconsistency relates to the measurement of flooding experience in terms of individual versus local experience, and the subsumption of multiple distinct constructs within composite indicators of climate change engagement. Using national survey data from Norway, we show that individual and local flooding experiences differentially predict subjective attribution and climate change concern. People with individual flooding experience reported significantly greater climate change concern than those with local, or no, flooding experience. Subjective attribution of flooding to climate change did not differ significantly between people with individual versus local flooding experience, except among those with a right-wing political orientation where individual experience was associated with greater subjective attribution. Our findings highlight the need for careful operationalisation of flooding experience and climate change engagement in subsequent research.

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个人和地方洪水经历与主观归因和气候变化问题的相关性不同

虽然几项研究表明洪水经历与气候变化参与之间存在关联，但有一些研究没有显示出这种联系的证据。在这里，我们探讨了这种不一致与根据个人与当地经验衡量洪水经验以及在气候变化参与的复合指标中包含多个不同结构的可能性有关。使用来自挪威的全国调查数据，我们表明个人和当地的洪水经历对主观归因和气候变化问题的预测存在差异。与当地或没有经历过洪水的人相比，有过洪水经历的人对气候变化的担忧要大得多。洪水对气候变化的主观归因在有个人和当地洪水经历的人之间没有显着差异，但在右翼政治倾向的人中，个人经历与更大的主观归因相关。我们的研究结果强调了在随后的研究中仔细实施洪水经验和气候变化参与的必要性。