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Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project

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...

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Autores principales: Greving, Hannah, Bruckermann, Till, Schumann, Anke, Stillfried, Milena, Börner, Konstantin, Hagen, Robert, Kimmig, Sophia E, Brandt, Miriam, Kimmerle, Joachim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10020826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad003
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author Greving, Hannah
Bruckermann, Till
Schumann, Anke
Stillfried, Milena
Börner, Konstantin
Hagen, Robert
Kimmig, Sophia E
Brandt, Miriam
Kimmerle, Joachim
author_facet Greving, Hannah
Bruckermann, Till
Schumann, Anke
Stillfried, Milena
Börner, Konstantin
Hagen, Robert
Kimmig, Sophia E
Brandt, Miriam
Kimmerle, Joachim
author_sort Greving, Hannah
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-100208262023-03-18 Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project Greving, Hannah Bruckermann, Till Schumann, Anke Stillfried, Milena Börner, Konstantin Hagen, Robert Kimmig, Sophia E Brandt, Miriam Kimmerle, Joachim Bioscience Education 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. Oxford University Press 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10020826/ /pubmed/36936382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad003 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Education
Greving, Hannah
Bruckermann, Till
Schumann, Anke
Stillfried, Milena
Börner, Konstantin
Hagen, Robert
Kimmig, Sophia E
Brandt, Miriam
Kimmerle, Joachim
Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title_full Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title_fullStr Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title_full_unstemmed Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title_short Attitudes Toward Engagement in Citizen Science Increase Self-Related, Ecology-Related, and Motivation-Related Outcomes in an Urban Wildlife Project
title_sort attitudes toward engagement in citizen science increase self-related, ecology-related, and motivation-related outcomes in an urban wildlife project
topic Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10020826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad003
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