Nova generacija klimatskih aktivista? Tipologija i neke determinante sudjelovanja u Fridays for Future prosvjedima hrvatskih srednjoškolaca
A New Generation of Climate Activists? Typology And Some Determinants of Participation in “Fridays for Future” Climate Strikes Among Croatian High School Students

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of empirical research that examined the forms of‎ support and participation of Croatian high school students in the “School Strike‎ for Climate Croatia” climate strikes, as well as some individual and contextual‎ determinants of their attitudes and participation. The research was conducted ‎using the online survey method in 2020 and 2021 on a convenient sample of final ‎years of Croatian high school students (N=534). The results show that about‎ 8% of the students were in some way actively connected with the strikes. Using‎ the analysis of the main components, three types of student attitudes towards ‎the protest and the protesters were determined: “protesters fighting for environmental ‎protection”, “protesters as universal activists” and “supportive protesters”. ‎In addition, multivariate analysis tested the effect of socio-demographic ‎characteristics together with the constructs of perception of collective efficacy, ‎environmental concern, ecological worldview, and attitudes about Greta Thunberg ‎as the initiator of the global Fridays for Future movement on established‎ attitudinal structures. The determinants involved were shown to be statistically‎ significant predictors, although not in the same way for each of the three attitudinal‎ dimensions.‎

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