The effect of hope and awareness on the decoding of climate change information accessed on the internet

Savaş, Sezgin (author), Tunçay, Esra (author), Güzin Ilıcak Aydınalp, Şükran (author), Kılıç, Büşra (author)

The main purpose of this article is to reveal the connection between the way of decoding information about climate change and the level of awareness and hope possessed by individuals. In this context, a research model that includes hope, awareness and decoding is used. Data were obtained from a sample of 383 people in the research. While the relationship between the research variables was examined with correlation analysis, the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable was examined with regression analysis. Difference tests were also performed. Results of the correlation analysis showed that decoding had positive weak and moderate relationships with hope and awareness, respectively. When considering the regression analysis results, it is striking that although awareness positively predicts decoding, a sub-dimension, Recklessness Act to Climate Change, negatively predicts it. The difference tests reveal that hope only includes the average difference of the sub-groups in terms of the education categorical variable. In this sense, education can be considered an important determinant in terms of hope.

• Language: English
• Keywords: climate change, global warming, climate crisis, climate and awareness, climate and hope, climatology, Internet users, public relations
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 09.07.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 391-414
• Numbering: Letn. 63, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-184791
• UDC: 316.77:551.583
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.63.2.391
• COBISS.SI-ID: 284798467
• Publication date in RUL: 15.07.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv upanja in zavedanja na dekodiranje informacij o podnebnih spremembah, dostopnih na internetu

Abstract

Glavni namen članka je razkriti povezavo med načinom dekodiranja informacij o podnebnih spremembah in stopnjo ozaveščenosti ter upanja, ki ga imajo posamezniki. V tem kontekstu je uporabljen raziskovalni model, ki vključuje upanje, zavedanje in dekodiranje. Podatki so bili pridobljeni iz vzorca 383 ljudi v raziskavi. Medtem ko je bila povezava med raziskovalnimi spremenljivkami preučena s korelacijsko analizo, je bil vpliv neodvisnih spremenljivk na odvisno spremenljivko preučen z regresijsko analizo. Izvedeni so bili tudi testi razlik. Rezultati korelacijske analize kažejo, da dekodiranje kaže šibko pozitivno povezavo z upanjem in zmerno pozitivno povezavo z zavedanjem. Pri obravnavi rezultatov regresijske analize je presenetljivo, da čeprav zavedanje pozitivno napoveduje dekodiranje, ga poddimenzija “nepremišljeno ravnanje do podnebnih sprememb” napoveduje negativno. Testi razlik kažejo, da se stopnja upanja razlikuje glede na izobrazbo. Izobrazbo lahko zato štejemo za pomemben dejavnik, povezan z upanjem.

• Keywords: podnebne spremembe, globalno segrevanje, podnebna kriza, podnebje in ozaveščenost, podnebje in upanje, klimatologija, uporabniki interneta, odnosi z javnostmi