Greving Hannah, Bruckermann Till, Schumann Anke, Stillfried Milena, Börner Konstantin, Hagen Robert, Kimmig Sophia E, Brandt Miriam, Kimmerle Joachim
Knowledge Construction Lab, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
Institute of Education, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Bioscience. 2023 Mar 17;73(3):206-219. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biad003. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Citizen science projects are crucial for engaging citizens in conservation efforts. Although attitudes toward engagement in citizen science were mostly considered an outcome of citizen science participation, citizens may also have a certain attitude toward engagement in citizen science when starting with a citizen science project. Moreover, there is a lack of citizen science studies that consider changes over longer periods of time. Therefore, in this research, we present two-wave data from four field studies of a citizen science project about urban wildlife ecology using cross-lagged panel analyses. We investigated the influence of attitudes toward engagement in citizen science on self-related, ecology-related, and motivation-related outcomes. We found that positive attitudes toward engagement in citizen science at the beginning of the project had positive influences on the participants' psychological ownership and pride in their participation, their attitudes toward and enthusiasm about wildlife, and their internal and external motivation 2 months later. We discuss the implications for citizen science research and practice.
公民科学项目对于让公民参与保护工作至关重要。尽管人们大多认为对参与公民科学的态度是公民科学参与的结果，但公民在开始参与公民科学项目时，可能也对参与公民科学持有一定的态度。此外，缺乏考虑较长时间段变化的公民科学研究。因此，在本研究中，我们使用交叉滞后面板分析，展示了一个关于城市野生动物生态学的公民科学项目四项实地研究的两波数据。我们调查了对参与公民科学的态度对自我相关、生态相关和动机相关结果的影响。我们发现，项目开始时对参与公民科学的积极态度，在两个月后对参与者的心理所有权、参与的自豪感、对野生动物的态度和热情以及他们的内在和外在动机都有积极影响。我们讨论了对公民科学研究和实践的启示。
