scholarly journals Resolving the Do/Do Not Debate: Communication Perspective to Enhance Sustainable Lifestyles

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 796
Author(s):  
Donghee N. Lee ◽  
Myiah J. Hutchens ◽  
Janice L. Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyles ◽  
Environmental Campaigns ◽  
Negative Messages

Clear and memorable environmental messaging has been scarce. Recycling contamination is an urgent environmental concern because the public is confused about which items can and cannot be recycled. Environmental campaigns utilizing message framing, a method used to emphasize either the benefits of performing or loss of avoiding an action, may help combat this problem. We conducted an online study (n = 1199) and randomly assigned participants to view positively or negatively framed (do vs. do not) messages. Results revealed that participants who viewed negative messages with do not descriptors increased recycling intention, mediated by increased recycling contamination knowledge and recycling efficacy (95% CI: 0.03, 0.08). The findings suggest that recycling instructions may be more effective when messages are framed negatively using inhibitive descriptors. Results of this study can inform development of environmental campaigns to improve sustainable lifestyles.

scholarly journals Behavioral and Attitudinal Correlates of Trusted Sources of COVID-19 Vaccine Information in the US

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Carl A. Latkin ◽  
Lauren Dayton ◽  
Jacob R. Miller ◽  
Grace Yi ◽  
Afareen Jaleel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Online Study ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Us ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Vaccine Information

There is a critical need for the public to have trusted sources of vaccine information. A longitudinal online study assessed trust in COVID-19 vaccine information from 10 sources. A factor analysis for data reduction revealed two factors. The first factor contained politically conservative sources (PCS) of information. The second factor included eight news sources representing mainstream sources (MS). Multivariable logistic regression models were used. Trust in Dr. Fauci was also examined. High trust in MS was associated with intention to encourage family members to get COVID-19 vaccines, altruistic beliefs that more vulnerable people should have vaccine priority, and belief that racial minorities with higher rates of COVID-19 deaths should have priority. High trust in PCS was associated with intention to discourage friends from getting vaccinated. Higher trust in PCS was also associated with participants more likely to disagree that minorities with higher rates of COVID-19 deaths should have priority for a vaccine. High trust in Dr. Fauci as a source of COVID-19 vaccine information was associated with factors similar to high trust in MS. Fair, equitable, and transparent access and distribution are essential to ensure trust in public health systems’ abilities to serve the population.

scholarly journals Investigating nature within different discursive and ideological contexts: case studies of Chinese and Indian coal capitals

BJHS Themes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 199-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIN-HSIEN WU
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indian Coal ◽  
Environmental Campaigns ◽  
Critical Literature

AbstractGiven that purely scientific accounts of ‘environmental performance’ and ‘development’ cannot fully explain the environment and its interactions with people, this paper investigates how nature has been historically and sociopolitically defined in different societies. The analyses and observations presented in this paper are based on a critical literature review and on case studies of two ‘coal capitals’, one in Guizhou in China and the other in Jharkhand in India. The study examines the historical representations of environmental campaigns (particularly from the 1950s to the 1990s) in the two countries, and discusses how historical, sociopolitical and ideological factors have affected conceptualizations of nature and how they are reflected nowadays in people's narratives concerning the environment. The paper concludes that the Chinese pattern of development, as well as of knowledge construction, reflects a greater intention of homogenizing the public with the language of development deployed by the centralized power; meanwhile, the Indian pattern allows a greater space for the representation of conflicts, including people's struggles against the state. The comparative analysis enriches our understanding of people's responses to official perceptions of the environment endorsed by modern science and governance.

scholarly journals Reformed Protestantism and the Origins of Modern Environmentalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Northcott
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Conservation ◽  
Environmental Campaigns

The question I investigate in this essay is why it was individuals and regions with a Reformed Protestant religious background—rather than, say, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, or Taoist—which pioneered environmental campaigns and efforts to set aside national parks and rare species for conservation. Subsidiary questions discussed are two: (1) What might be the roots of an affinity between Protestantism and an ecological orientation to the world? (2) If there was this affinity in the nineteenth-century origins of ecological conservation, why is it not more widely acknowledged in contemporary scholarship and in the public mind?

scholarly journals Perception of COVID-19 During the 2020 Pandemic in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-146
Author(s):  
E.I. Pervichko ◽  
O.V. Mitina ◽  
O.B. Stepanova ◽  
J.E. Koniukhovskaia ◽  
E.A. Dorokhov
Keyword(s):  
Illness Perception ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Illness Perception Questionnaire ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
State Scale

In order to study the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship with the emotional state of the population, an online study in all regions of Russia conducted from April 27 to May 27, 2020, The study involved 1192 people, of whom 981 were women (82%) and 211 men (18%) aged 18 to 81 years (M=36.5, SD=11.0). The methodological complex consisted of a socio-demographic questionnaire, the state scale from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Russian Version of the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck, Mermelstein, 1983; Ababkov, et al., 2016); as well as the Russian Version of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Broadbent, et al., 2006; Yaltonsky, et al., 2017), modified specifically for this study. Significant differences were found in experiencing stress, anxiety, and perceptions of the pandemic by gender, while anxiety and stress were found to be related to income. A significant correlation found between the attitude to coronavirus “as an exaggerated threat” with greater calm, greater understandability of the pandemic, and less control. However, if the respondent has relatives who have got sick COVID-19, then the perception of the pandemic becomes more threatening, less understandable, and more controlled. It was revealed that the assessment of the threat from a pandemic plays a mediating role between the fear of an unknown disease and the possibility of its control. The probability of cultural differences in the perception of the pandemic and its control is discussed, and the possibility of using the cultural-historical methodology and the concept of “subjective pattern of disease” to assess the public perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic is formulated.

scholarly journals Do cognitive biases condition environmental concern? The case of Italy and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Mannoni
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Mere Exposure Effect ◽  
Exposure Effect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effect Regression

This paper tackles whether it is possible to identify cognitive biases that foster environmental concern among public opinion. In particular, the study focuses on the mere exposure effect. Regression analysis was conducted on data concerning Spain and Italy to test the hypotheses that (1) exposing individuals to proenvironmental stimuli in the form of physical natural environments or recycling policies and (2) belonging to younger generations today is associated with a greater extent of environmental concern. The results confirmed both the hypotheses, suggesting environmental policies that affect individuals in their everyday lives, besides being beneficial for the environment, make the public opinion more conscious about the issue

scholarly journals Penyuluhan Berinternet dan Beribadah Pada Ibu Pengajian Perumahan Bandara Mas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Nia Ekawati
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Call To Prayer

Over the years Islamic sites have sprung up. In addition to many new names, now the categories are also increasingly diverse. There is a portal of Islamic studies in general. There are also special for teens, families, or the public. Not only that. Now worship is increasingly free. Through the virtual universe can. From searching for Islamic references, the Koran and digital Hadiths, to participating in online study sessions, everything can be done. You can even download nasyid songs, Islamic wallpapers, to the call to prayer program for free. Now, we are referencing back a number of Islamic sites that are worthy of your visit. Some are old, but with a variety of new features. There is also something really new with a variety of information. Everything you can use to worship and strengthen faith. Koran recitals at the Mas Airport housing are an Islamic container that helps the residents of the Mas Airport housing to continue to carry out and implement Islamic law, such as recitation, lectures from informants. So that it can provide additional knowledge from the Islamic side

scholarly journals Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Potts
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post Industrial

This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term ‘futurism’ was coined in the publication of the ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominent theme in pronouncements on the future is technological progress, first in relation to industrial technology, later in the context of post-industrial or information technology. A turning-point in this discourse can be isolated around 1973, when ideas of technological progress begin to be challenged in the public sphere; from that date, environmental concern becomes increasingly significant in discussions of the future.

More Than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Dorfman ◽  
Lawrence Wallack ◽  
Katie Woodruff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Public Health Advocacy

Framing battles in public health illustrate the tension in our society between individual freedom and collective responsibility. This article describes how two frames, market justice and social justice, first articulated in a public health context by Dan Beauchamp, influence public dialogue on the health consequences of corporate practices. The authors argue that public health advocates must articulate the social justice values motivating the changes they seek in specific policy battles that will be debated in the context of news coverage. The authors conclude with lessons for health education practitioners who need to frame public health issues in contentious and controversial policy contexts. Specific lessons include the importance of understanding the existing values and beliefs motivating the public health change being sought, the benefits of articulating core messages that correspond to shared values, and the necessity of developing media skills to compete effectively with adversaries in public debate.

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