Loy Laura S, Tröger Josephine, Prior Paula, Reese Gerhard
Department of Social, Environmental and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany.
Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 30;12:622842. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622842. eCollection 2021.
Global crises such as the climate crisis require fast concerted action, but individual and structural barriers prevent a socio-ecological transformation in crucial areas such as the mobility sector. An identification with people all over the world (i.e., ) and an openness toward less consumption (i.e., ) may represent psychological drivers of a socio-ecological transformation. We examined the compatibility of both concepts as well as their relation to people's support of a decarbonised mobility system and their flight mobility behaviour - a CO-intensive behaviour that may be particularly difficult to refrain from for globally identified people, but less so for sufficiency-oriented people. In an online study conducted in Germany ( = 317), we found that global identity and sufficiency orientation were positively related. Both were negatively related to past flight-related CO emissions and positively related to refraining from flying and the support of decarbonised mobility policies. Accounting for both showed that sufficiency orientation in particular was related to fewer flight-related CO emissions and refraining from flying. Furthermore, we examined people's travel experiences. While global identity was unrelated to the frequency and duration of international travelling, it was positively related to the frequency and quality of contact with local people met on journeys. An experimental variation of whether participants first answered questions on global identity or on travel experiences revealed that remembering past international travelling led to higher reported levels of global identity. Taken together, global identity seems to profit from in-depth international contact with people, but can be decoupled from resource-intensive travel behaviour. Globally identified and sufficiency-oriented people may support a socio-ecological transformation. Our results indicate a compatibility of global identity and sufficiency orientation. Experimental and longitudinal research should examine causal links to foster our understanding of the conditions under which both can be strengthened.
气候危机等全球危机需要迅速采取协调一致的行动，但个人和结构性障碍阻碍了交通出行等关键领域的社会生态转型。对世界各地的人们产生认同感（即 ）以及对减少消费持开放态度（即 ）可能是社会生态转型的心理驱动因素。我们研究了这两个概念的兼容性，以及它们与人们对脱碳交通系统的支持及其飞行出行行为之间的关系——飞行出行行为是一种碳排放密集型行为，对于具有全球认同感的人来说可能特别难以避免，但对于注重充足性的人来说则相对容易。在德国进行的一项在线研究（ = 317）中，我们发现全球认同感和充足性取向呈正相关。两者都与过去与飞行相关的碳排放呈负相关，与避免飞行以及对脱碳交通政策的支持呈正相关。综合考虑这两个因素表明，充足性取向尤其与较少的与飞行相关的碳排放以及避免飞行有关。此外，我们还研究了人们的旅行经历。虽然全球认同感与国际旅行的频率和时长无关，但它与在旅途中结识的当地人的接触频率和质量呈正相关。对参与者是先回答关于全球认同感的问题还是关于旅行经历的问题进行实验性变化后发现，回忆过去的国际旅行会导致更高的全球认同感报告水平。综上所述，全球认同感似乎受益于与人们的深入国际接触，但可以与资源密集型的旅行行为脱钩。具有全球认同感和注重充足性的人可能会支持社会生态转型。我们的结果表明全球认同感和充足性取向具有兼容性。实验性和纵向研究应检验因果关系，以加深我们对可以加强这两者的条件的理解。
