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Public Concern About Industrial Hazards

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  • Pieter Jan M. Stallen
  • Arend Tomas

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In this paper we propose adopting a noncognitive perspective for the understanding of people's anxiety or, its opposite, feelings of security about living near hazardous industrial facilities. Results of our empirical investigations among residents of a heavily industrialized area indicate that at least four qualitatively different response patterns exist: the Secure, the Accepting, the Defensive, and the Vigilant response. In this order manifest anxiety increases, which increase is shown to be a function of the assessment of the threat, of the opportunities for personal control (specific), and of hope (generalized) to bring about a better environment by one's own action. As an application of the usefulness of this typology we discuss the various explanations for the often‐observed male/female difference in anxiety regarding industrial threat.

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  • Pieter Jan M. Stallen & Arend Tomas, 1988. "Public Concern About Industrial Hazards," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(2), pages 237-245, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:riskan:v:8:y:1988:i:2:p:237-245
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1988.tb01177.x
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    1. Branden B. Johnson, 2003. "Communicating Air Quality Information: Experimental Evaluation of Alternative Formats," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 23(1), pages 91-103, February.
    2. Michael Siegrist & Carmen Keller & Henk A. L. Kiers, 2005. "A New Look at the Psychometric Paradigm of Perception of Hazards," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 25(1), pages 211-222, February.

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