Table 6.
Descriptive statistics for Study 2.
Type of measure | Variable | Minimum (absolute) | Mean | Maximum (absolute) | SD | α |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Covariates | Skepticism | 1.00 (1) | 2.50 | 5.00 (5) | 0.96 | 0.87 |
Behavioral control | 1.50 (1) | 3.15 | 5.00 (5) | 0.72 | 0.76 | |
Ductile worldview | 1.00 (1) | 3.71 | 5.00 (5) | 0.66 | 0.79 | |
Elastic worldview | 1.00 (1) | 2.47 | 5.00 (5) | 0.78 | 0.81 | |
Time perspective | 1.00 (1) | 4.65 | 6.93 (7) | 0.82 | 0.80 | |
Place attachment | 1.00 (0) | 3.60 | 5.00 (6) | 0.89 | 0.89 | |
Psychological | PD1 | 1.00 (1) | 2.48 | 5.00 (5) | 0.73 | 0.94 |
distance | PD2 | 0.00 (0) | 43.58 | 100 (100) | 17.91 | 0.73 |
Construal level | BIF | 0.00 (0) | 0.46 | 1.00 (1) | 0.20 | 0.79 |
Environmental | 0.00 (0) | 0.46 | 1.00 (1) | 0.25 | 0.68 | |
General | 0.00 (0) | 0.46 | 1.00 (1) | 0.22 | 0.63 | |
RCW | 0.00 (0) | 1.45 | 3.00 (3) | 0.50 | 0.78 | |
Environmental | 0.00 (0) | 1.49 | 3.00 (3) | 0.55 | 0.66 | |
General | 0.00 (0) | 1.39 | 3.00 (3) | 0.59 | 0.61 | |
Dependent measure | Individual pro-environmental behavior | 1.71 (1) | 3.37 | 4.65 (5) | 0.52 | 0.75 |
Policy choice | 1.00 (1) | 3.07 | 5 (5) | 1.47 | NA | |
Belief-type | % of sample | |||||
Belief | Deny | 3% | ||||
Don’t know | 6% | |||||
Natural causes | 35% | |||||
Anthropogenic | 56% |