Write a literature review investigating the relationship between the Big Five personality factors and attitudes towards climate change.

Write a literature review investigating the relationship between the Big Five personality factors and attitudes towards climate change.
The ability to construct arguments with appropriate use of psychological concepts, theories and evidence.
The ability to select, summarise, synthesise and reference appropriately information from different psychological sources, including primary texts.
The ability to present written material in a coherently organised form, with arguments and information in logical sequence and communicated effectively in a variety of formats.
The ability to use information technology to search for and access digital resources.
The ability to derive and justify research questions and hypotheses using psychological theories and evidence.
The introduction should explain the broad context of your research area and the main topic(s) you are interested in and why (defining any key terms, if needs be). It should also include a brief overview of the format your review will take.
The main body makes up the bulk of the review. Here you should include a description and critical analysis of the literature that is relevant to your research. This should serve to contextualise your own research by illustrating how it builds on what has been done before. For TMA 02, this should include at least three to five studies you have found in academic journals or book chapters (not textbooks).
An important part of the review is to provide a critical assessment of the studies you identify, comparing and critically evaluating the different contributions to the literature. In this way the review goes beyond simply providing a list of the published papers or chapters that you identified in the literature search. Instead, it should aim to identify any patterns and shortcomings in the literature, which can be used to justify your own work. For example, this might include one (or more) of the following:
Identifying significant patterns, relationships or themes within the literature.
Discussing areas where there are unresolved questions or conflicting evidence.
Identifying methodological or theoretical weaknesses within different studies that need to be addressed.
Specifying areas that have been under-researched or not researched at all.
In terms of the ‘shape’ of the review, you should start off with a general, wider view of the literature, gradually narrowing it down to address the specific focus of your research. It should allow the reader to understand what you are doing and why you are doing it.
The conclusion should summarise and evaluate the important aspects of your review. Importantly, it should summarise any significant problems or gaps within the existing research and explicitly explain how your proposed study is going to address these gaps or build on the existing literature to produce something new. You should end this section with your proposed research question or hypotheses, linking your research to existing knowledge. Your research question or hypothesis should read as a logical conclusion to the discussion of the literature.

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