Understanding how people’s worldviews and individual personality differences affect their thinking about anthropogenic climate change is critical to communication efforts regarding this issue. This study surveyed University of Georgia students to investigate the role that need for cognitive closure plays in level of climate change worry. The relationship between these two was found to involve suppression—a subset of mediation—by the social dimension of political conservatism. Political conservatism was also found to play a mediating role in the relationship between need for cognitive closure and support for governmental and personal climate solutions. However, social conservatism played this mediator role in women, and functioned as a suppressor for men. These findings help inform audience segmentation and creation of climate-related messages based on audience worldview and personality.

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调查大学生认知封闭的需要与气候变化关注之间的联系。


了解人们的世界观和个人性格差异如何影响他们对人为气候变化的思考对于有关这一问题的沟通工作至关重要。这项研究对佐治亚大学的学生进行了调查，以调查认知封闭的需要在气候变化担忧程度中所起的作用。人们发现这两者之间的关系涉及政治保守主义社会维度的压制（调解的一个子集）。研究还发现，政治保守主义在认知封闭需求与对政府和个人气候解决方案的支持之间的关系中发挥着中介作用。然而，社会保守主义在女性中扮演着调解者的角色，而在男性中则扮演着抑制者的角色。这些发现有助于根据受众的世界观和个性对受众进行细分并创建与气候相关的信息。