Milfont, Taciano L.Athy, Ariana2022-01-262022-01-262021https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14732Climate change impacts human rights, and Māori and other indigenous communities around the world are amongst those most vulnerable to its consequences. This has led the United Nations to recommend a human rights-based approach to climate action. However, no research has examined the relations between support for human rights and climate change beliefs, which is critical if such a rights-based approach is to receive widespread public backing. Here we investigate the cross-sectional and longitudinal relations between support for human rights and climate change beliefs/concern with data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N ≈ 17,656) using a combination of variable- and person-centred analyses. Cross-lagged results indicate support for the item regarding physical human rights had a more reliable bidirectional, longitudinal relationship with climate change beliefs/concern, compared to the item regarding economic human rights. A latent profile analysis revealed six distinct subgroups of New Zealanders, with climate change beliefs/concern differing between subgroups but with human rights support being consistently high. Lastly, latent transition analysis revealed that all but one of the subgroups were relatively unstable across the one-year period, but New Zealanders tended to move from profiles of lower climate beliefs/concern into profiles of higher climate beliefs/concern. Findings reveal novel implications for a rights-based climate change response.application/pdfenAll items in Research Commons are provided for private study and research purposes and are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Climate changeHuman rightsAttitudesBeliefsConcernNZAVSUnited NationsMāoriNew ZealandClimatic changes -- Political aspects -- New ZealandHuman rights -- New ZealandUnited NationsMaori (New Zealand people) -- AttitudesNew Zealanders -- AttitudesClimatic changes -- New Zealand -- Public opinionGlobal warming -- New Zealand -- Public opinionThesis2022-01-24Te mahana haere o te aoHuringa āhuarangiTikanga tangata