Cargando…

Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death

Adverse climate change poses a threat to the health of pregnant women and unborn children and has a negative impact on the quality of life. Additionally, individuals with a high awareness of the consequences of climate change may be accompanied by a fear of the inevitable end, such as a fear of deat...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora, Zagaj, Klaudia, Kossakowska, Karolina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100374
_version_ 1784816485031477248
author Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora
Zagaj, Klaudia
Kossakowska, Karolina
author_facet Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora
Zagaj, Klaudia
Kossakowska, Karolina
author_sort Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora
collection PubMed
description Adverse climate change poses a threat to the health of pregnant women and unborn children and has a negative impact on the quality of life. Additionally, individuals with a high awareness of the consequences of climate change may be accompanied by a fear of the inevitable end, such as a fear of death. This, in turn, may discourage planning for offspring. Thus, both the perception of climate change and fear of death can have implications for reproductive intentions. Only a few studies to date indicate that concerns about climate change, especially when combined with attitudes towards death, may influence the formation of attitudes and reproductive plans. Thus, current research is aimed at looking at reproductive intentions from the perspective of both climate change concerns and the fear of death. This study was conducted from December 2020 to February 2021. A total of 177 childless males and females (58.8%) took part in the study. The Death Anxiety and Fascination Scale (DAFS) and Climate Change Perception Questionnaire (CCPQ) were completed online. Overall, 63.8% of respondents displayed a positive reproductive intention. Multivariable logistic regression analysis found that, in addition to the young age of respondents, the likelihood of positive reproductive intentions increases with death anxiety and decreases with death fascination and with climate health concerns. The results indicate that both climate change concerns and the fear of death are relevant to reproductive plans—positive reproductive intentions increase with death anxiety and decrease with death fascination and with climate health concerns. The results fill the gap in the existing research on predictors of reproductive intentions and can be used for further scientific exploration and practical activities addressing the issues of the determinants of decisions about having children. The individual consequences of climate change are clearly taken into account in the context of offspring planning and, therefore, should be considered in the design of social and environmental actions.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9598991
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-95989912022-10-27 Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora Zagaj, Klaudia Kossakowska, Karolina Behav Sci (Basel) Article Adverse climate change poses a threat to the health of pregnant women and unborn children and has a negative impact on the quality of life. Additionally, individuals with a high awareness of the consequences of climate change may be accompanied by a fear of the inevitable end, such as a fear of death. This, in turn, may discourage planning for offspring. Thus, both the perception of climate change and fear of death can have implications for reproductive intentions. Only a few studies to date indicate that concerns about climate change, especially when combined with attitudes towards death, may influence the formation of attitudes and reproductive plans. Thus, current research is aimed at looking at reproductive intentions from the perspective of both climate change concerns and the fear of death. This study was conducted from December 2020 to February 2021. A total of 177 childless males and females (58.8%) took part in the study. The Death Anxiety and Fascination Scale (DAFS) and Climate Change Perception Questionnaire (CCPQ) were completed online. Overall, 63.8% of respondents displayed a positive reproductive intention. Multivariable logistic regression analysis found that, in addition to the young age of respondents, the likelihood of positive reproductive intentions increases with death anxiety and decreases with death fascination and with climate health concerns. The results indicate that both climate change concerns and the fear of death are relevant to reproductive plans—positive reproductive intentions increase with death anxiety and decrease with death fascination and with climate health concerns. The results fill the gap in the existing research on predictors of reproductive intentions and can be used for further scientific exploration and practical activities addressing the issues of the determinants of decisions about having children. The individual consequences of climate change are clearly taken into account in the context of offspring planning and, therefore, should be considered in the design of social and environmental actions. MDPI 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9598991/ /pubmed/36285943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100374 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Bielawska-Batorowicz, Eleonora
Zagaj, Klaudia
Kossakowska, Karolina
Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title_full Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title_fullStr Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title_full_unstemmed Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title_short Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death
title_sort reproductive intentions affected by perceptions of climate change and attitudes toward death
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100374
work_keys_str_mv AT bielawskabatorowiczeleonora reproductiveintentionsaffectedbyperceptionsofclimatechangeandattitudestowarddeath
AT zagajklaudia reproductiveintentionsaffectedbyperceptionsofclimatechangeandattitudestowarddeath
AT kossakowskakarolina reproductiveintentionsaffectedbyperceptionsofclimatechangeandattitudestowarddeath