ISSP1993: Environment I

The third of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.A verbose rundown on topics covered follows.Attitudes towards environmental protection. Preferred government measures for environmental protection. Obedience or self-determination as most important education goal; private entrepreneurs as best possibility to solve economic problems; responsibility of the government to reduce income differences among the citizens; postmaterialism index; perceived belief in science of the population; attitude to modern science (scale); expected solution of environmental protection problems through science; too many concerns for the future of the environment in comparison to prices and provision of jobs; environmental destruction and modern life; equal rights for animals and people.Respect for nature as creation of God; belief in God; exaggerated environmental sensitivity; judgement on the contrast of environmental protection and economic growth; attitude to animal experiments in pharmacology; nature as struggle for survival; economic growth endangers the environment; readiness for higher prices or higher taxes or to accept reductions in standard of living for the benefit of protection of the environment; personal difficulties in participation in environmental protection; self-classification of participation in environmental protection.Knowledge about manner of functioning of antibiotics as destructive agent for bacteria or virus; belief in astrology; understanding the theory of evolution; artificially produced chemicals as cause for cancer; humans as party responsible for radioactivity; knowledge of the danger of death from radioactivity; knowledge about the dangers of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants; knowledge about the cause for the greenhouse effect; pesticides and chemicals in the production of food as causes for cancer; humans as cause for extinction of animals and plants; cars and air pollution; expected increase of illnesses in large cities as result of air pollution.Classification of nuclear power plants, air pollution from industrial waste gases, pesticides and chemicals in agriculture, water pollution and warming of the atmosphere through the greenhouse effect as dangerous for the environment on the one hand as well as for the respondent and his family on the other; preference for regulation of environmental problems by the government, the population or the economy; personal participation in recycling; purchase of untreated fruits; frequency of doing without meat for moral and environmental reasons; frequency of not using the car for environmental reasons. Membership in an environmental protection organisation; personal environmental political activities through participation in signature lists, donations as well as participation in demonstrations; social origins; employment in the public sector; time worked each week; span of control; company size; personal unemployment in the last few years and length of this unemployment; religiousness; self-assessment of social class; union membership; party preference; party inclination; housing situation and residential status; in some countries: ethnic affiliation of respondent.

梅西大学市场营销系Philip Gendall教授在新西兰开展的、为期20年的国际社会调查项目（International Social Survey Programme，ISSP）调查中的第三次调查。下文详细列举了所涵盖的主题：对环境保护的态度；环境保护的首选政府措施；将服从或自主作为最重要教育目标的倾向；认为私营企业家是解决经济问题最佳途径的观点；政府在缩小公民收入差距方面的责任；后物质主义指数（postmaterialism index）；公众对科学的信任度；对现代科学的态度（量表，scale）；期望通过科学解决环境保护问题的程度；相较于价格与就业保障，对环境未来的担忧是否过度；环境破坏与现代生活的关系；动物与人类平等权利的看法；将自然视为上帝造物而予以尊重的态度；对上帝的信仰；过度的环境敏感度；对环境保护与经济增长之间矛盾的判断；对药理学动物实验的态度；视自然为生存竞争的观点；经济增长是否危害环境的看法；为环境保护而愿意接受更高价格、更高税收或生活水平下降的程度；参与环境保护时遇到的个人困难；对自身环境保护参与度的自我归类；对抗生素作为细菌或病毒杀伤剂的作用方式的认知；对占星术的信仰；对进化论的理解；人工合成化学品是否致癌的认知；人类是否应对放射性负责的看法；对放射性致死危险的认知；对核电站放射性废物危害的认知；对温室效应成因的认知；食品生产中的农药与化学品是否致癌的看法；人类是否导致动植物灭绝的认知；汽车与空气污染的关系；对大城市空气污染导致疾病增加的预期；将核电站、工业废气污染、农业中的农药与化学品、水污染及温室效应导致的大气变暖归类为对环境有害以及对受访者及其家庭有害的程度；倾向于由政府、公众还是经济主体来监管环境问题；个人参与回收利用的情况；购买未处理水果的行为；因道德和环境原因而不吃肉的频率；因环境原因而不使用汽车的频率；是否为环保组织成员；通过参与签名、捐赠及示威等方式进行的个人环境政治活动；社会出身（social origins）；是否在公共部门就业；每周工作时长；管理幅度（span of control）；公司规模；过去几年的个人失业经历及失业时长；宗教信仰程度（religiousness）；社会阶层的自我评估；是否为工会成员；政党偏好；政党倾向；住房状况与居住身份；在部分国家还包括受访者的族裔归属（ethnic affiliation）。