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2024-11-22T08:48:12Z urn:hdl:10366/160746 The role of implicit theories about climate change malleability in the prediction of pro-environmental behavioral intentions Cuadrado, Esther Macias-Zambrano, Luis Guzmán, Isabel Carpio, Antonio J. Tabernero Urbieta, María Carmen Implicit theories about climate change Environmental responsibility Proenvironmental behavioral intention Experiment Pretest–posttest [EN]Understanding the variables that influence pro-environmental intentions is key to promoting pro-environmental actions. In this research, we analyze how the sense of responsibility toward climate change and implicit theories about climate change (ITCC) interact to condition individual pro-environmental intention. A total of 48 psychology students with a mean age of 19 years were randomly divided into two experimental groups and participated in a pretest–posttest experiment. The experimental manipulation consisted of reading a news extract regarding scientific research: one group was given information stating that climate change is still reversible, instilling incremental ITCC; the other group was given the opposite information, instilling static ITCC. The results of the one-way ANOVA (F = 4.206, p < .05) showed that people with incremental ITCC presented a greater intention to behave in a pro-environmental way than did individuals with static ITCC. Moreover, the moderating analysis showed that ITCC act as a moderating variable in the relationship between the sense of responsibility and pro-environmental behavioral intentions. The sense of responsibility predicted pro-environmental behavioral intentions when individuals held incremental ITCC (p < .01) but not when they held static ITCC (p = .901). This research emphasized the relevance of promoting incremental ITCC interventions in the environmental education field, as the sense of responsibility toward climate change is deterministic but not in itself enough to acquire the intention to behave in a pro-environmental way. 2024-11-22T08:48:12Z 2024-11-22T08:48:12Z 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Cuadrado, E., Macias-Zambrano, L., Guzman, I., Carpio, A. J., Tabernero, C., Cuadrado, E., Macias-Zambrano, L., Guzman, I., Carpio, A. J., & Tabernero, C. (2023). The role of implicit theories about climate change malleability in the prediction of pro-environmental behavioral intentions. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 25(10), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10668-022-02525-X 1387-585X http://hdl.handle.net/10366/160746 10.1007/S10668-022-02525-X 1573-2975 eng https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-022-02525-x http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Springer