Matthias Penker- Master of Arts
- Researcher and doctoral Student at University of Graz
Matthias Penker
- Master of Arts
- Researcher and doctoral Student at University of Graz
working on doctoral-thesis and other side hustles
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Introduction
Currently working on dissertation about public support for environmental movements from an international comparative perspective. In addition to substantive research, I am dealing with methodological questions on how to get valid measurements and inferences when combining different survey modes.
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January 2022 - October 2023
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Despite extensive literature emphasizing the role of education in promoting engagement in environmental movements, international comparative research has yet to fully elucidate the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Using data from 44,100 respondents across 28 countries in the ISSP's fourth environmental module, we demonstrate that individual...
Over the past decade, the climate movement and especially action
groups like Fridays for Future have been effective in raising awareness on environmental issues and mobilizing protesters, especially among younger age groups. However, it remains unclear whetherthis recent surge in activism reflects a broader societal shift or if this trend is primar...
A large literature has developed around the concept of political trust, but what exactly political trust is remains ambiguous. Some studies present it as a narrower evaluation of the current government’s performance, while others treat it as a broader orientation towards the entire political system. This paper speaks to this question by examining t...
Background
There is evidence that overexposure to digital media devices (DMD) can not only lead to addictive patterns of internet use, but also cause insomnia symptoms. The aim of this cross-sectional study among adolescents is to provide an estimate of the prevalence of sleep impairments and to explore the mediating role of after-midnight use of D...
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, surveys often could not be conducted in originally planned face-to-face mode, and switched to online modes or used different mixed-mode designs. A combination of CATI and CAPI was used for the Austrian ISSP survey on Environment 2020/2021 (N=1.261), which in the past had always been conducted face-to-face. Mixed-mode s...
This edited volume offers researchers, educators and students of the social sciences insights into the long-term consequences of the historic COVID-19 crisis. It contains contributions based on the longitudinal study ‘Values in Crisis 2020–2022’, in whose surveys more than 2000 respondents took part, by over 20 authors located at Austrian universit...
Compensatory green beliefs (CGBs) denote beliefs that unsustainable behaviours can be compensated for by performing other sustainable behaviours. We propose to differentiate between efficacy, normative, and general beliefs (ECGBs, NCGBs, GCGBs). ECGBs refer to effectively offsetting previous lapses. NCGBs denote feeling morally obliged to make amen...
Young People are still referred to as digital natives, although numerous studies have shown differences in their access to digital devices, Internet usage and attitude towards digitalisation. Such differences can lead to digital inequalities. In higher education digital inequalities among students are scarcely researched as it is assumed that unive...
