Shaffer-Morrison, C Dale and Dillman-Hasso, Naseem and Wilson, Robyn (2025) Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers. The British Journal of Social Psychology, 64 (2). e12850-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12850
Shaffer-Morrison, C Dale and Dillman-Hasso, Naseem and Wilson, Robyn (2025) Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers. The British Journal of Social Psychology, 64 (2). e12850-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12850
Shaffer-Morrison, C Dale and Dillman-Hasso, Naseem and Wilson, Robyn (2025) Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers. The British Journal of Social Psychology, 64 (2). e12850-. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12850
Abstract
A future time perspective is critical to domains where outcomes of choices are delayed and potentially catastrophic: such as with agriculture where management decisions today are critical to the viability of multiple outcomes in the future. Farmers are on the front lines of climate change where shifts in rainfall and temperature threaten the viability of crop production. This reality is compounded for some farmers who lack the resources needed to adapt. Prior work has shown that farmers with strong injunctive norms toward conservation, and sufficient resources, are more likely to implement adaptation practices, but little research has explored the role of future time perspectives relative to these factors. We test whether future time perspective may lead U.S. Midwestern farmers to develop injunctive norms toward conservation, and in turn, implement adaptation practices. We find support for this mechanism through both a correlational analysis (Study 1), and a manipulation of the salience of future impacts through a vignette experiment (Study 2). In addition, we see that some socioeconomic resources constrain adaptation. These results are relevant to regions where greater adaptation practices are needed to protect against climate impacts on operations that produce row crops like corn, soy, and wheat.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | climate adaptation; conservationist norms; future time perspectives |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2025 16:24 |
Last Modified: | 02 May 2025 16:24 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40014 |
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