Research has identified familism, a cultural value reflecting the centrality and prioritization of the family, as a key psychosocial determinant of health risk-mitigation behavior among Latinos, a large and growing segment of the US public. In a national probability survey in which Latinos were oversampled, we explored whether familism predicts climate beliefs and policy preferences. Whereas political ideology and education predicted Whites’ climate change beliefs and support for mitigation policy, these factors were substantially weaker predictors of Latinos’ climate beliefs and policy support. In contrast, familism emerged as a robust predictor of Latinos’ climate-related beliefs and policy support. These findings generalized across different operationalizations of familism, including the use of family as a referent in decision-making (family-as-referent) and felt obligation to one’s family (familial obligation). We consider implications of relational values central to family for climate communication and advocacy.

研究表明，家庭主义是一种文化价值，反映了家庭的中心地位和优先次序，是拉丁美洲人（美国公众的一个庞大且不断增长的部分）中健康风险减轻行为的关键心理社会决定因素。在一项对拉丁美洲人进行过采样的全国概率调查中，我们探讨了家庭主义是否能预测气候信念和政策偏好。虽然政治意识形态和教育预测了白人的气候变化信念和对减缓政策的支持，但这些因素对拉丁美洲人的气候信念和政策支持的预测要弱得多。相比之下，家庭主义成为拉丁裔气候相关信仰和政策支持的有力预测指标。这些发现概括了家庭主义的不同操作，包括在决策中使用家庭作为参考。家庭作为参照）并感到对家庭的义务（家庭义务）。我们考虑对家庭至关重要的关系价值观对气候交流和宣传的影响。