The Effect of Climate Change Threat on Public Attitudes towards Ethnic and Religious Minorities and Climate Refugees

This entry includes the text of five surveys distributed via Qualtrics company to ethnic white British citizens in 2020 (Study 1: Survey T1 and T2) and 2021 (Study 2 - different sample from Study 1) and 2023 (Study 3: Survey T1 and T2 - different sample from previous surveys) and associated datasets. Hence, Study 1 and Study 3 consist of two survey waves whereby the second wave was a recontact of participants in wave 1. All studies use a different sample of ethnic white British citizens. The surveys used an experimental design (Study 1 (T2) , Study 2, Study 3 (T2)) to investigate the effect of climate change threat on attitudes towards ethnic/religious minorities and climate refugees. We found no significant direct effect. We found that social majority members who are exposed to threatening information about climate change and, at the same time, feel little national efficacy over climate change, evaluate more negatively those minorities that are perceived as posing the biggest challenge to national cohesion and unity (Muslims+Pakistanis). Similar results for the evaluation of climate refugees were statistically significant only in one of the experiments (Study 1). The moderating role of collective climate efficacy beliefs suggests that processes of group-based control may be central for explaining authoritarian and ethnocentric responses to climate change threat.

The data was cleaned of variables pertaining to a different study on the effect of climate change threat on environmental extremism, which is still under analysis. More information on this research can be found in these pre-registrations: https://aspredicted.org/S8X_13Z, https://aspredicted.org/ZXZ_SXQ and https://aspredicted.org/6ka4k.pdf.

本条目包含2020年（研究1：调查T1和T2）、2021年（研究2 - 与研究1不同的样本）以及2023年（研究3：调查T1和T2 - 与之前调查不同的样本）通过Qualtrics公司向英国白人族群成员分发的五份调查问卷的文本，以及相关的数据集。因此，研究1和研究3由两个调查波次组成，其中第二个波次是对第一波次的参与者进行的再次联系。所有研究均采用了不同的英国白人族群样本。调查采用了实验设计（研究1（T2）、研究2、研究3（T2））来探究气候变化威胁对对种族/宗教少数群体和气候难民态度的影响。我们发现没有显著的直接效应。我们发现，那些接触到关于气候变化的威胁性信息，同时对自己在气候变化上的国家效能感较低的社会多数群体成员，对那些被认为是对国家团结和统一构成最大挑战的少数群体（穆斯林+巴基斯坦人）的评价更为负面。对于气候难民的评价在实验中仅在其中一个实验（研究1）中显示出统计学意义上的显著性。集体气候效能信念的调节作用表明，基于群体的控制过程可能对于解释对气候变化威胁的威权主义和种族中心主义反应至关重要。数据已清除与气候变化威胁对环境极端主义影响的研究相关的变量，该研究仍在分析中。更多关于这项研究的信息可以在这项预注册研究中找到：https://aspredicted.org/S8X_13Z, https://aspredicted.org/ZXZ_SXQ 和 https://aspredicted.org/6ka4k.pdf。