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This article explores the underlying factors of sustainable consumption behavior. Survey data are employed to test the impacts of environmental attitude, knowledge, social awareness, perceived credibility of information sources, self-efficacy and gender on sustainable consumption patterns among samples of university students in Iran and Japan. This contributes to the scientific search for valid explanatory models that could be employed to foster lifestyle transformations towards sustainability. Our findings confirm positive relationship between self-efficacy, social awareness and sustainable consumption in both Japanese and Iranian samples. Other predicators did not have a consistent effect in both samples. This article also presents the results of moderated regression and discusses which impacts were moderated by gender. The discussion presents with interpretation of the findings and proposes possible alternative explanations.
Sadegh Salehi; Audronė Telešienė; Zahra Pazokinejad. Socio-Cultural Determinants and the Moderating Effect of Gender in Adopting Sustainable Consumption Behavior among University Students in Iran and Japan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8955 .
AMA StyleSadegh Salehi, Audronė Telešienė, Zahra Pazokinejad. Socio-Cultural Determinants and the Moderating Effect of Gender in Adopting Sustainable Consumption Behavior among University Students in Iran and Japan. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8955.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSadegh Salehi; Audronė Telešienė; Zahra Pazokinejad. 2021. "Socio-Cultural Determinants and the Moderating Effect of Gender in Adopting Sustainable Consumption Behavior among University Students in Iran and Japan." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8955.
Taking its primary interest in active environmental citizenship, this paper aims at evaluating a case of an educational intervention designed to foster environmental citizenship among undergraduate students at a technological university. The study employs a survey methodology implementing a recently validated environmental citizenship questionnaire. A randomized pre-group –post-group quasi-experimental survey design explores students’ environmental citizenship attributes before and after the intervention course, ‘Sustainable Development’, in comparison to students who participated in a general elective course, ‘Media Philosophy’. The results show that the participation in the intervention course induced positive change in students’ environmental citizenship in comparison to the control group. Additional analysis indicates that environmental citizenship is significantly related to environmental attitudes, nature experiences during childhood and adolescence, and gender. The article provides a timely contribution shedding light on how specific pedagogical approaches in higher education can foster environmental citizenship.
Audronė Telešienė; Jelle Boeve-De Pauw; Daphne Goldman; Ralph Hansmann. Evaluating an Educational Intervention Designed to Foster Environmental Citizenship among Undergraduate University Students. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8219 .
AMA StyleAudronė Telešienė, Jelle Boeve-De Pauw, Daphne Goldman, Ralph Hansmann. Evaluating an Educational Intervention Designed to Foster Environmental Citizenship among Undergraduate University Students. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8219.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAudronė Telešienė; Jelle Boeve-De Pauw; Daphne Goldman; Ralph Hansmann. 2021. "Evaluating an Educational Intervention Designed to Foster Environmental Citizenship among Undergraduate University Students." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8219.
This article investigates the presence of domestic-international linkages in the Lithuanian mass media discourse on climate change. We apply the domestication framework which distinguishes three types of framing climate change in the media: as a domestic issue disconnected from its global dimensions, as a global issue disconnected from the geographic location in which news is being produced and consumed, and as an issue that links together the domestic and international levels. We estimate a Correlated Topic Model for a dataset of 583 Lithuanian news articles published between 2017 and 2018. Classifying the resulting topics as respectively associated with either type of domestication, we find that domestic-international linkages (‘extroverted domestication’) accounts for roughly half of the latent semantic structure of our corpus, while the disconnected globalized perspective on climate change (‘counter-domestication’) accounts for a third. We conclude that the Lithuanian mass media discourse on climate change is strongly internationalized and suggest potential avenues for the further development and application of the domestication framework.
Florian Rabitz; Audronė Telešienė; Eimantė Zolubienė. Topic modelling the news media representation of climate change. Environmental Sociology 2020, 7, 214 -224.
AMA StyleFlorian Rabitz, Audronė Telešienė, Eimantė Zolubienė. Topic modelling the news media representation of climate change. Environmental Sociology. 2020; 7 (3):214-224.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorian Rabitz; Audronė Telešienė; Eimantė Zolubienė. 2020. "Topic modelling the news media representation of climate change." Environmental Sociology 7, no. 3: 214-224.
The notion of Environmental Citizenship embodies behaviour – an actively involved citizen who exercises his/her environmental rights and obligations in the private and public spheres. Education for Environmental Citizenship implies behavioural change; its goal is to facilitate an individual’s intellectual growth (cognitive domain) and emotional capacity (affective domain) that may lead to a critical and actively engaged individual. Human behaviour is overwhelmingly sophisticated, and what shapes pro-environmental behaviour is complex and context specific. Furthermore, empirical research indicates a discrepancy between possessing environmental knowledge and environmentally supportive attitudes and behaving pro-environmentally. The point of departure of this chapter is that the social and psychological study of behaviour has much to inform the study of environmental behaviour and, deriving from this, to inform regarding the type of education towards behaviour/action in the goal of sustainable socioecological transformation. The chapter focuses on internal (psychosocial) factors. It presents selected models regarding factors influencing behavioural decisions that are acknowledged as influential theoretical frameworks for investigating pro-environmental behaviour, as well as various theories that inform these models. These are categorised into knowledge-based models; attitude-, value- and norm-oriented models; skills, self-efficacy and situational factors; and new approaches to environmental behaviour models. The chapter concludes with suggestions for Education for Environmental Citizenship deriving from the various models.
Daphne Goldman; Ralph Hansmann; Jan Činčera; Vesela Radović; Audronė Telešienė; Aistė Balžekienė; Jan Vávra. Education for Environmental Citizenship and Responsible Environmental Behaviour. Environmental Discourses in Science Education 2020, 115 -137.
AMA StyleDaphne Goldman, Ralph Hansmann, Jan Činčera, Vesela Radović, Audronė Telešienė, Aistė Balžekienė, Jan Vávra. Education for Environmental Citizenship and Responsible Environmental Behaviour. Environmental Discourses in Science Education. 2020; ():115-137.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaphne Goldman; Ralph Hansmann; Jan Činčera; Vesela Radović; Audronė Telešienė; Aistė Balžekienė; Jan Vávra. 2020. "Education for Environmental Citizenship and Responsible Environmental Behaviour." Environmental Discourses in Science Education , no. : 115-137.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the ways how climate change related risks are being constructed in political institutional discourses. We draw upon the political communicative texts, i.e. texts prepared by governmental authorities, from the pre- and post-Paris agreement period, i.e. 2015–2016. Our empirical analysis is guided by the relational theory of risk, theory of discursive institutionalism, critical discourse analysis, notions of interdiscursivity and interpretive repertoires. The main research questions are the following: What are the threats typically associated with climate change (source of risk)?; What are the objects-at-risk typically spoken of in political communicative discourses?; How are the relations of the risk source and object-at-risk discursively constructed (e.g. vulnerability, resilience, etc.)?; What is the overall ‘repertoire’ of typical climate change related risks as discursively constructed in political communicative texts? To answer the research questions, Lithuania and United Kingdom are taken for cross-national comparison. UK is regarded as a leader in international and domestic climate change policy, whereas climate change policies are treated instrumentally in Lithuania. Both Lithuania and UK, as EU member states, follow the general EU climate change policy. Yet because of differences in public attitudes and other socio-political contexts, the effectiveness of climate change policies is different. Contrasting the two member states and looking for underlying discursive practices, that serve as grounds for climate action, bring new scientific insights. The analysis of the sampled texts is conducted using NVivo.
Audronė Telešienė; Eimantė Zolubienė. Comparative Analysis of UK and Lithuanian Political Institutional Communicative Climate Change Discourses. Filosofija. Sociologija 2020, 30, 1 .
AMA StyleAudronė Telešienė, Eimantė Zolubienė. Comparative Analysis of UK and Lithuanian Political Institutional Communicative Climate Change Discourses. Filosofija. Sociologija. 2020; 30 (4):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAudronė Telešienė; Eimantė Zolubienė. 2020. "Comparative Analysis of UK and Lithuanian Political Institutional Communicative Climate Change Discourses." Filosofija. Sociologija 30, no. 4: 1.
This article looks into the complex structure of factors which determine public risk perceptions of climate change, combining individual level indicators (related to social structures) and macro level indicators (at country level) related to countries’ exposures to natural hazards and national political contexts. The article employs survey data from the 2017 Special Eurobarometer 459 (87.1) and country-level statistical data on political contexts and climate-related hazards. Multilevel mixed-effects linear regressions were applied. The results of the research indicate that few macro level variables related to natural hazards can significantly explain climate change risk perceptions (like temperature increases or water deficit), and political contexts at the macro level do not significantly explain the variance in the levels of concern about climate change. However, individual level variables (education and political orientation) significantly mediate how natural hazards and political contexts influence climate change risk perception. People with higher education levels have higher concerns about climate change in countries that are more vulnerable to floods and droughts, and left-leaning voters in countries with higher democracy indices and better climate policies demonstrate higher levels of climate change risk perception. Scientific literacy is an important factor in shaping public opinions and concerns about climate change, particularly with regard to the complex understanding of natural factors of climate change; having a clear political orientation helps people to reflect on the national political contexts of climate change.
José Manuel Echavarren; Aistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė. Multilevel analysis of climate change risk perception in Europe: Natural hazards, political contexts and mediating individual effects. Safety Science 2019, 120, 813 -823.
AMA StyleJosé Manuel Echavarren, Aistė Balžekienė, Audronė Telešienė. Multilevel analysis of climate change risk perception in Europe: Natural hazards, political contexts and mediating individual effects. Safety Science. 2019; 120 ():813-823.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJosé Manuel Echavarren; Aistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė. 2019. "Multilevel analysis of climate change risk perception in Europe: Natural hazards, political contexts and mediating individual effects." Safety Science 120, no. : 813-823.
This study aims to provide an empirically verified exploration of factors influencing environmental activist behaviour. The authors focus on the determinants of personal environmental activist behaviour as a characteristic of the culturally specific group of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. A two-stage model of the biographical availability thesis is explored. Results reveal evident regional differences in patterns of public-sphere environmental behaviours across Europe. CEE countries exhibit lower levels of engagement in environmental activist behaviours than Western and Nordic European countries. The two-stage model of the biographical availability thesis is only partially confirmed. Age and employment status have a significant influence on behaviour: specifically, being 17–24 years old and in education increases availability for environmental activist behaviour. Gender has an additional influence upon participation in demonstrations and protests, with men being more participative. A low-commitment partnership status has additional influence on behavioural intentions. The results imply the need for further research into the context and cognitive determinants of environmental activist behaviour in CEE countries.
Audronė Telešienė; Aistė Balžekienė. The Influence of Biographical Situational Factors upon Environmental Activist Behaviour: Empirical Evidence from CEE Countries. Sociální studia / Social Studies 2015, 12, 159 -178.
AMA StyleAudronė Telešienė, Aistė Balžekienė. The Influence of Biographical Situational Factors upon Environmental Activist Behaviour: Empirical Evidence from CEE Countries. Sociální studia / Social Studies. 2015; 12 (3):159-178.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAudronė Telešienė; Aistė Balžekienė. 2015. "The Influence of Biographical Situational Factors upon Environmental Activist Behaviour: Empirical Evidence from CEE Countries." Sociální studia / Social Studies 12, no. 3: 159-178.
The main focus of this article is on parental leave and allowance system in Lithuania. This study analyses main changes in this system, when in 2011 new version of Sickness and maternity social insurance law was adopted in Lithuania. Article presents and discusses theoretical models of family policy, analyses Lithuanian family policy and job/paternity reconciliation problems. With reference to different authors’, the article is based upon theoretical discussion of family policy models. Traditional male breadwinner model is opposed to other models: caregiver-parity model, dual-earner model and dual-carer model. Analysis of state social insurance parental allowance system and beneficiaries in Lithuania is conducted based on data sets from State Social Insurance Fund Board and expert interviews. There are two main questions answered in the article: what is the structure of parental leave beneficiaries and how did it change after amendment of Sickness and maternity social insurance law; what are the typical choices of those going for parental leave. What work/family model is induced by these changes and does it comply with the aims of the new Sickness and maternity social insurance law.Analysis of Lithuanian state social insurance parental allowance system and choices of beneficiaries showed clear policy tendencies to move forward to more male breadwinner model. With the emphasis on long periods of absence from work and relatively small compensations, new parental leave policy devalues family care in relation to employment and does not provide choices for women to (re-)move from family care to employment.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.13.1.6406
Tadas Šarlauskas; Audronė Telešienė. The Regulation of State Social Insurance: Structure and Choices of Beneficiaries. Public Policy And Administration 2014, 13, 1 .
AMA StyleTadas Šarlauskas, Audronė Telešienė. The Regulation of State Social Insurance: Structure and Choices of Beneficiaries. Public Policy And Administration. 2014; 13 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTadas Šarlauskas; Audronė Telešienė. 2014. "The Regulation of State Social Insurance: Structure and Choices of Beneficiaries." Public Policy And Administration 13, no. 1: 1.
This article investigates public perceptions of food risks and food purchasing in Lithuania. Study results identify that food related concerns are prevailing in Lithuanian society over many environmental, health and technological risks, such as global climate change, nuclear power or genetic engineering. Authors argue that modern food risks can be characterized as out of personal control risks and the predominance of food risks in public attitudes denotes that food cultures are becoming cultures of fear. Research revealed that inhabitants of Lithuania are highly concerned about food safety, however these concerns are not reflected in the patterns of food purchasing behaviors.
Aistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė; Egle Butkeviciene. Food risk perceptions, purchasing behaviour and culture of fear. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2014, 5, 61 -88.
AMA StyleAistė Balžekienė, Audronė Telešienė, Egle Butkeviciene. Food risk perceptions, purchasing behaviour and culture of fear. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 2014; 5 (1):61-88.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė; Egle Butkeviciene. 2014. "Food risk perceptions, purchasing behaviour and culture of fear." Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 5, no. 1: 61-88.
Santrauka. Depopuliacijos ir senėjančios visuomenės iššūkiai Lietuvoje aktualizuoja tiek natūralios gyventojų kaitos tiek migracijos srautų tyrimus. Prognozuojama, jog per kelis artimiausius dešimtmečius Lietuvoje natūralus gyventojų prieaugis išliks neigiamas, tačiau migracijos saldo taps teigiamu. Imigracijos tematika Lietuvoje tyrinėta mažai. Šiame straipsnyje analizuojamas Lietuvos gyventojų atvirumas imigracijai, remiamasi Europos socialinio tyrimo 2010/2011 m. duomenimis. Lietuvos gyventojams būdingas gana didelis atvirumas potencialiai kitos rasės ar etninės grupės individų imigracijai ir šis atvirumas yra vienas didžiausių tarp tyrime dalyvavusių 27-erių Europos šalių. Atvirumas imigracijai reikšmingai susijęs su imigrantų keliamų ekonominių ir kultūrinių grėsmių suvokimu. Jei imigrantų keliamos ekonominės ar kultūrinės grėsmės suvokimas nėra išreikštas, patikimai galima spėti, jog respondentas yra atviras imigracijai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: imigracija, atvirumas imigracijai, Europos socialinis tyrimas, grupių konflikto teorija.Key words: immigration, openness to immigration, European Social Survey, group conflict theory.Abstract Openness to immigration: a case of Lithuania in an international perspective Using the European Social Survey 5th round data (2010/2011) author analyzes openness to immigration. The focus is on the case of Lithuania. Lithuania is exceptional as it has very low but growing rates of immigration. The first question addressed in the paper is the level of Lithuanian population‘s openness to immigration. The openness to immigration of different race and ethnicity than the majority of country’s population was measured. The results show high rates of radical (“allow many immigrants”) and moderate (“allow some”) openness to immigration. Lithuanian population’s openness to immigration is one of the highest in the group of countries that participated in ESS 5th round. The second question asks if perception of threats posed by immigrants can be used as predictor. Logistic regression results show that perception of economic and cultural threats posed by immigrants is a reliable predictor of openness to immigration – low perception of threats leads to openness to immigration. Pastaba. Straipsnis parengtas pagal KTU Politikos ir viešojo administravimo instituto įgyvendinamą projektą „Europos socialinis tyrimas: šiuolaikinės Lietuvos visuomenės nuostatos, vertybės ir elgsena“ finansuoja Lietuvos mokslo taryba (sutarties Nr. MIP-022/2012).
Audronė Telešienė. Atvirumas imigracijai: Lietuvos atvejis tarptautinėje perspektyvoje. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 2013, 32, 122 -1350.
AMA StyleAudronė Telešienė. Atvirumas imigracijai: Lietuvos atvejis tarptautinėje perspektyvoje. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas. 2013; 32 (1):122-1350.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAudronė Telešienė. 2013. "Atvirumas imigracijai: Lietuvos atvejis tarptautinėje perspektyvoje." Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 32, no. 1: 122-1350.
The aim of this article is to characterise the prevalence of personal sphere environmental behaviour and evaluate the influence of background variables, environmental concern and knowledge upon this behaviour, leaning upon a representative sample. The article draws upon ISSP representative survey ‘Environment’ conducted in 2010. The article employs the data from the Lithuanian sample. The research indicates that individuals tend to be more engaged in private sphere environmental behaviour (waste sorting, environmentally-friendly consumer habits, saving water and energy) than in public sphere environmental behaviour (environmental group membership, financial support of such groups, signing petitions, participating in demonstrations). The results indicate that active private sphere environmental behaviour is more common among women, older people, people with university degree and inhabitants of small towns. Public sphere environmental activities are influenced significantly by education level and place of residence. Environmental concern has a significant influence upon environmental behaviour, whereas knowledge about causes and solutions of environmental problems has a significant but weak influence.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ss.74.4.1031
Aiste Balzekiene; Audronė Telešienė. Explaining Private and Public Sphere Personal Environmental Behaviour. Social Sciences 2012, 74, 7-19 .
AMA StyleAiste Balzekiene, Audronė Telešienė. Explaining Private and Public Sphere Personal Environmental Behaviour. Social Sciences. 2012; 74 (4):7-19.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAiste Balzekiene; Audronė Telešienė. 2012. "Explaining Private and Public Sphere Personal Environmental Behaviour." Social Sciences 74, no. 4: 7-19.
The aim of this article is to analyze the scope and depth to which discourses on environmental and technological risks are marked by political domination. Authors explain the reciprocal model of interconnections between 1) environmental and technological risk discourses and 2) such factors as high trust in science and technologies, ascription of responsibilities to political authorities, low civil participation and low rates of trust in civil sector organizations. The article is based upon national media monitoring research, Eurobarometer data, ISSP national survey and several other national opinion polls. The results show the political (and expert) domination of public discourses on environmental and technological risks, as channelled through popular newspapers in Lithuania.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ss.74.4.1032
Audronė Telešienė; Ausra Rimaite; Kristina Juraite. Politicized Discourses on Environmental and Technological Risks: the Case of Lithuania. Social Sciences 2012, 74, 20-31 .
AMA StyleAudronė Telešienė, Ausra Rimaite, Kristina Juraite. Politicized Discourses on Environmental and Technological Risks: the Case of Lithuania. Social Sciences. 2012; 74 (4):20-31.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAudronė Telešienė; Ausra Rimaite; Kristina Juraite. 2012. "Politicized Discourses on Environmental and Technological Risks: the Case of Lithuania." Social Sciences 74, no. 4: 20-31.
Straipsnyje siekiama atskleisti klimato kaitos – kaip nūdienio aktualaus globalaus socialinio ir politinio klausimo – suvokimą Lietuvos visuomenėje pastaraisiais metais. Tyrimu siekiama atsakyti į klausimus: kokios Lietuvos gyventojų nuostatos, požiūriai į klimato kaitą, jos priežastis bei sprendimo galimybes; koks diskursas artikuliuojamas Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje klimato kaitos tematika; kaip žiniasklaidos diskursas siejasi su Lietuvos gyventojų viešąja nuomone. Sociologinė pastarųjų klausimų analizė nagrinėjama rizikos ir aplinkosaugos sociologijos teorijų kontekste, interpretacijas pagrindžiant visuomenės nuomonės apklausos, atliktos VMSF remiamo projekto RINOVA 2008 m. duomenimis ir analogiško laikotarpio žiniasklaidos turinio monitoringo tyrimų rezultatais. Straipsnio išvadose konstatuojama, kad nors pasauliniame kontekste klimato kaitos klausimai yra socialinio ir politinio diskurso centre, Lietuvoje globalias rizikas užgožia vietos problemos, o klimato kaitos klausimai, ypač žiniasklaidoje, neretai paliekami paraštėse.
Aistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė; Leonardas Rinkevičius. Klimato kaita: socialinio rizikos suvokimo ir žiniasklaidos diskurso Lietuvoje konfigūracijos. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 2008, 22, 5 -19.
AMA StyleAistė Balžekienė, Audronė Telešienė, Leonardas Rinkevičius. Klimato kaita: socialinio rizikos suvokimo ir žiniasklaidos diskurso Lietuvoje konfigūracijos. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas. 2008; 22 ():5-19.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAistė Balžekienė; Audronė Telešienė; Leonardas Rinkevičius. 2008. "Klimato kaita: socialinio rizikos suvokimo ir žiniasklaidos diskurso Lietuvoje konfigūracijos." Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 22, no. : 5-19.