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- Andersson, Hanna, et al.
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Natur på skolgården för lärande, hälsa och hållbarhet
- 2024. - 2024
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Gröna och artrika utemiljöer främjar barns och ungas välbefinnande och kunskap, bådegenom hälsofördelar kopplade till biologisk mångfald och genom att skapa förutsättningarför lek och lärande om natur och miljöfrågor. Skolgården skulle kunna bidra till allt detta,men är idag i hög grad en outnyttjad plats för biologisk mångfald och klimatanpassningav städer. I denna policy brief presenteras huvudsakliga motiv och möjliga åtgärder för attutveckla gröna miljöer och biologisk mångfald på skolgårdar och förskolegårdar.
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- Hamann, Karen R S, et al.
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Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better : A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims
- 2024
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Ingår i: Personality and Social Psychology Review. - 1532-7957. ; 28:1, s. 11-53
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many people do not act together against climate change or social inequalities because they feel they or their group cannot make a difference. Understanding how people come to feel that they can achieve something (a perception of self-efficacy) is therefore crucial for motivating people to act together for a better world. However, it is difficult to summarize already existing self-efficacy research because previous studies have used many different ways of naming and measuring it. In this article, we uncover the problems that this raises and propose the triple-A framework as a solution. This new framework shows which agents, actions, and aims are important for understanding self-efficacy. By offering specific recommendations for measuring self-efficacy, the triple-A framework creates a basis for mobilizing human agency in the context of climate change and social injustice.
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- Kube, Tobias, et al.
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How people update their beliefs about climate change : An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it
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Ingår i: Political Psychology. - 0162-895X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- People usually update their beliefs selectively in response to good news and disregard bad news. Here, we investigated in two preregistered experiments (N = 278 and N = 306) (1) whether such valence-dependent belief updating also underlies information processing in the context of climate change and (2) whether it can be altered by interventions informing about different aspects of climate change. To this end, we adapted a well-established belief update task to the context of climate change. In multiple trials, participants were asked about their beliefs about adverse consequences of climate change; subsequently, they were asked to update their beliefs in light of new information. Both studies provided evidence against the hypothesis that people integrate good news about climate change more than bad news. After half of the trials, participants were randomized to one of four video-based interventions, each of which aimed at promoting a more accurate risk perception and increasing pro-environmental intentions. After the interventions, participants showed a more accurate risk perception, and women rather than men increased their intentions for pro-environmental behavior. The results provide implications for climate change communication, as they show that when facing the consequences of climate change, people adjust their risk perception accurately and increase their pro-environmental intentions.
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- Loy, Laura S, et al.
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How dare we? The relation between language use, global identity, and climate activism
- 2024
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Psychology. - 2750-6630. ; 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Identifying with and caring for people all over the world (i.e., a global identity) is positively related to pro-environmental behaviour. However, less is known how to foster such a global identity. Drawing on social identity theory, we investigated whether using inclusive (vs. exclusive) language in the context of demonstrations for climate protection increases people’s global identity. Moreover, we examined whether inclusive language use strengthens people’s intentions to engage in pro-environmental activism and their pro-environmental policy support, while reducing their denial of climate change implications, through a heightened global identity. In our pre-registered online experiment with a convenience sample mostly living in Germany (N = 307), we found no significant impacts of language use. Language effects did also not depend on people’s prior identification with the climate movement. However, our results show that, in line with our assumptions, the stronger people’s global identity, the more they intended to become pro-environmentally active, the more they supported pro-environmental policies, and the less they denied their impact on climate change.
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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - 1103-9000.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
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- Reese, Gerhard, et al.
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No risk, no fun…ctioning? Perceived climate risks, but not nature connectedness or self-efficacy predict climate anxiety
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Climate. - 2624-9553. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly visible.Recent research suggests that people may respond to climate change andits predicted consequences with a specific anxiety. Yet, little is known aboutpotential antecedents of climate anxiety. The current study aimed to understandthe contribution of climate risk perception to climate anxiety, along withnature-connectedness, self-efficacy, and political orientation. With a sample of204 German adults, we assessed these constructs together with environmentalpolicy support that may result from climate anxiety. Stronger risk perceptionand a left political orientation predicted climate anxiety. Self-efficacy and natureconnectedness, however, were unrelated to climate anxiety. In line with previousstudies, climate anxiety correlated positively with environmental policy supportbut did not predict environmental policy support when controlling for climate risk perception. We discuss results with regard to further developing the concept of climate anxiety and its dynamics and suggest directions for future research.
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- Tröger, Josephine, et al.
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Was ist genug? Begründung, Potentiale und Empfehlungen für mehr Suffizienz(orientierung) [What is enough? Rationale, potentials, and recommendations for more sufficiency (orientation)]
- 2022
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Ingår i: psychosozial. - : Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH and Co. KG. - 0171-3434. ; 45:2, s. 44-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sufficiency has long been marginalized in the public and political sustainability discourse. Since attempts to reduce CO2 emissions in the long term have so far fallen short of expectations, sufficiency has recently approached the forefront of scientific and social debates about a »good life«. In addition to a strict reduction target, the sufficiency strategy promises psychological well-being and global socio-ecological justice. The aim of this text is to introduce sufficiency and sufficiency orientation as concepts and to highlight practical implications to foster a socio-ecological transformation in the spirit of sufficiency. We begin by outlining how the concept of sufficiency is to be classified in the sustainability discussion and what psychological links can arise from it. We then describe, in the form of an excursus, to what extent minimalism can be regarded as a popular counterpart to sufficiency, what limits minimalism currently reveals with regard to ecological questions, and to what extent both concepts could mutually stimulate each other through their references to subjective well-being and as societal trends against overconsumption. We then present recent research contributions on materialism, well-being, time wealth, and basic psychological needs that make obvious cross-connections to sufficiency. Finally, we present concrete approaches to promote sufficiency and sufficiency orientation that aim to advance a socio-ecological transformation through interactions with more structural levels of society.
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- Wullenkord, Marlis, et al.
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Basic psychological needs and autonomous motivation: : A humanistic perspective on pro-environmental behaviour change
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Pro-Environmental Behaviour Change. - 9781800882126 ; , s. 212-212
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces a humanistic perspective on pro-environmental behaviour change. It outlines self-determination theory, a humanistic, dialectical theory of human motivation, as a theoretical frame for understanding behaviour change and its underlying motivations. Self-determination theory proposes that humans have basic psychological needs for autonomy (ownership), competence (efficacy), and relatedness (belonging). The satisfaction of those universal, fundamental needs is a pre-requisite for healthy human functioning, well-being, autonomous motivation, and the ability to cope with threat, while the thwarting of those needs leads to extrinsic motivation, defensiveness, and self-protective behaviours. Satisfied basic psychological needs lead to autonomous motivation – long-term, self-sustaining motivation for voluntary behaviour change. Based on the theoretical propositions and empirical evidence in the environmental context, this chapter provides a hands-on guide to foster pro-environmental behaviour change in various contexts.
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- Wullenkord, Marlis
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Climate anxiety in our nature : Appraisal of climate anxiety and the role of nature connectedness
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Global climate change has increasing effects on mental health and well-being (e.g., in the form of climate anxiety), both through direct exposure to its consequences (e.g., extreme weather) and through indirect exposure (i.e., the social representation or appraisal of climate change without direct contact to its physical consequences). To help people cope with distress due to climate anxiety, nature connectedness is suggested as one possible pathway. At the same time, mixed evidence of both a positive relation between climate anxiety and nature connectedness and absence of such a relation is accumulating. Such seemingly contradictory recommendations and findings may indicate that the constituents of climate anxiety are not well understood yet. This research aims to increase conceptual clarity of the concept of climate anxiety as a distinct emotional response to climate change. More specifically, I will explore two questions: 1) How can appraisal theories of emotion be used to explain climate anxiety? 2) How might nature connectedness influence the appraisal pattern of climate anxiety? To address these questions, I will present findings of a literature review and conceptual framework and preliminary analyses of a sample of N=2000 participants (stratified for age, gender, and education).
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