Nuclear Attitudes after Chernobyl: A Cross-National Study. Special Issue: Psychological Fallout from the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
Eiser, J. R., Hannover, B., Mann, L., Morin, M., et al. (1990). Nuclear attitudes after Chernobyl: A cross-national study. Special Issue: Psychological fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 10, 2, 101-110.
840 Ss from universities in Australia, England, France, West Germany, and the Netherlands completed a questionnaire during the month following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Decision-making style and the favorability/unfavorability of nuclear attitudes were relatively independent of each other. However, Ss who described themselves as more informed and interested in nuclear issues, and as having paid more attention to and having been more frightened by the news of Chernobyl, scored lower on the style of defensive avoidance but higher on that of self-esteem/vigilance. Reactions to Chernobyl were strongly related to attitudes on other nuclear issues defined within specific national contexts; more conservative political preferences were predictive of greater support for nuclear power.
