Post-materialism, Religiosity, Political Orientation, Locus of Control and Concern for Global Warming: A Multilevel Analysis Across 40 Nations

Mohamed M. Mostafa ()
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Mohamed M. Mostafa: Gulf University for Science and Technology

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2016, vol. 128, issue 3, No 16, 1273-1298

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this paper is to investigate factors influencing concern for global warming among 40 nations. Due to the hierarchical nature of the data, the study uses multilevel and Bayesian multilevel modeling to cross-culturally test the influence of nations’ wealth, CO2 emissions, post-materialistic tendencies, religiosity, political orientation, and locus of control on concern for global warming. The results from 40 nations contradict the affluence hypothesis. The general pattern of the results shows that concern for global warming is a global phenomenon and not unique to the wealthy nations. We also found that concern for global warming is driven by religiosity, political orientation and internal locus of control. The findings of this paper highlight the importance of simultaneously assessing individual- and contextual-level variables in determining concern for global warming across nations.

Keywords: Global warming; Post-materialism; Political orientation; Locus of control; Random coefficient modeling; Bayesian analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1079-2

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