Climate Actions: China & NZ

This dataset contains survey responses from 1,034 young adults aged 18–30 years, including 520 participants from China and 514 from New Zealand. The survey was designed to assess a range of psychological variables related to climate change, including emotional responses (e.g., experienced emotions, anticipatory emotions, and emotional affinity towards nature), cognitive variables (e.g., biospheric and altruistic values, environmental self-efficacy), and self-reported willingness to engage in various high-impact climate change mitigation behaviours (5 transportation, 8 dietary, and 3 other behaviours).

The dataset has been used in two separate studies. The first study examined cross-cultural differences in the emotional and cognitive predictors of willingness to act on climate change. The second study applied audience segmentation techniques to identify latent psychological profiles in both countries and compared the behavioural willingness of each segment.

The dataset includes anonymized participant responses and variable labels. The respective publications provide full details of the measures used.