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{"title":"Integrating perceived environmental quality with objective greenness: A GEMA study of adults’ emotional well-being in rural settings","authors":"Shang-Ti Chen ,&nbsp;Li Yi ,&nbsp;Sicheng Wang ,&nbsp;Chih-Hsiang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Research on the relationship between greenness and emotional well-being has often focused on between-person associations, paying only limited attention to real-time, within-person dynamics. This study addresses this gap by using the geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) methodology to assess the real-time, within-person impact of objective (i.e., normalized difference vegetation index [NDVI]) and subjective (i.e., perceived restorative environments; PRE) measures of environments, alongside outdoor leisure activities, on positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) among adults in Taiwan.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Our analytical sample included 160 adults in Taiwan (58.1 % female, aged 18–60, <em>M</em> = 22.09, <em>SD</em> = 5.54), who completed ecological momentary assessment (EMA) surveys measuring their PRE, outdoor leisure activities, PA, and NA 3 times daily for 7 days. As the participants answered the surveys, their smartphones automatically recorded their geolocation data, which were subsequently linked to 30 × 30 m NDVI data to derive a measure of ambient greenness exposure. Multilevel modeling was used to examine the between- and within-person associations of NDVI greenness, PRE, and outdoor leisure activities with affect, adjusting for covariates (i.e., age, sex, educational attainment, marital status, living arrangements, presence of chronic diseases, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol consumption). The interaction between outdoor leisure and PRE was also tested to predict momentary affect.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Participants submitted responses to 2935 EMA prompts (87.4 % response rate). Higher PRE and engagement in outdoor leisure were associated with higher PA and lower NA, whereas higher NDVI was unexpectedly linked to lower PA and higher NA. The PRE × outdoor leisure interaction did not reach statistical significance after accounting for random slopes (<em>b</em> = 0.12, <em>p</em> = .06), but the estimated effect followed the expected direction, suggesting that the inverse association between PRE and NA was somewhat weaker during leisure episodes compared with non-leisure moments.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>PRE and outdoor leisure activities are associated with higher momentary PA and lower NA, but NDVI greenness is not. This suggests fostering individuals’ connections to and enhancing their experiences within green spaces may be important ways to maximize the emotional benefits of green spaces. Overall, our GEMA approach provides valuable insights into real-time associations between greenness exposure and well-being that can be applied to develop targeted environmental-based interventions for mental health promotion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102887"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping climate belief profiles in Brazil: A cluster analysis of polarization and mistrust","authors":"Nicolas de Oliveira Cardoso ,&nbsp;Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira ,&nbsp;Luisa Massarani ,&nbsp;Ketlin da Rosa Tagliapietra ,&nbsp;Ione Mendes ,&nbsp;Vanessa Fagundes ,&nbsp;Wagner de Lara Machado","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>Climate change</em> misinformation poses a growing threat to environmental engagement, particularly in politically polarized contexts. This study aimed to identify and compare climate belief profiles among Brazilian adults based on their sociodemographic characteristics and susceptibility to misinformation. Using cluster analysis on data from a nationally diverse sample (<em>n</em> = 1503), we uncovered two distinct climate belief profiles. One cluster reflected high acceptance of climate science, while the other was characterized by skepticism, conspiratorial thinking, and institutional distrust. These clusters significantly differed across all dimensions of the Climate Change Belief Scale (CCBS), with political orientation emerging as the strongest differentiator. However, subgroup analyses of politically unaffiliated participants reveal that psychological and value-based factors further differentiate climate belief profiles, highlighting meaningful heterogeneity beyond self-reported political preference. Our findings indicate that climate skepticism is less about scientific illiteracy and more deeply embedded in ideological worldviews. Variables such as education and religiosity played a secondary role, while age, ethnicity, marital status, geographic region, and occupational status did not significantly differentiate between profiles. Drawing on value-based frameworks, we discuss how skepticism aligns with identity-protective cognition and low endorsement of self-transcendent values such as universalism. By employing a multidimensional scale adapted to the Brazilian context, this study captures culturally specific misinformation narratives and institutional distrust patterns in the Global South. These insights emphasize the need for climate communication strategies that move beyond factual correction, focusing instead on moral, emotional, and cultural foundations of belief. Our findings provide concrete guidance for culturally attuned interventions targeting ideological and identity-based skepticism. This study contributes to advancing more effective approaches to counter misinformation in politically polarized, culturally diverse contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102885"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From processing motivation to environmental behavioral intention","authors":"Yifei He,&nbsp;Janet Z. Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plastic pollution is one of the major environmental problems globally. To better understand how to motivate recycle and reuse behaviors through Instagram posts about plastic waste, this study employs a survey experiment based on a sample of US adults (<em>N</em> = 1015). Results demonstrate that concerns about the environmental impact of plastic waste matter more than concerns about the health impact of plastic waste in influencing people's intention to recycle and reuse. Further, putting people in a mental state to care about knowing accurate facts about plastic waste leads them to read the Instagram posts more carefully, more so than priming them to care about their social image. These findings suggest that using accuracy cue leads to more careful reading of a persuasive message about plastic waste reduction, which increases risk perception and contributes to recycle and reuse intentions indirectly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102884"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting peer norms, shifting behavior? Optimizing educational interventions to promote adolescents’ sustainable dietary choices","authors":"Judith van de Wetering ,&nbsp;Stathis Grapsas ,&nbsp;Astrid Poorthuis ,&nbsp;Sander Thomaes","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two preregistered randomized experiments (Study 1: <em>N</em> = 381, age 12–17, 47.5 % girls, 90 % Dutch; Study 2: <em>N</em> = 468, age 12–19, 52.8 % girls, 79.7 % Dutch) tested whether educational interventions to promote adolescents' sustainable behavior can be optimized by harnessing their peer status motive. Across studies, Bayesian informative hypothesis testing indicated strong support (PMPs 0.896 to 0.981, BFs 10.02 to 58.03) for the hypothesis that educational messaging promoted adolescents' sustainable dietary behavior and behavior intentions compared to unrelated messaging; that peer norm messaging amplified the motivational effect of education; and that dynamic (“more and more youth choose to eat less meat”) and static (“some youth choose to eat less meat”) norm messaging was equally effective. Effect sizes were small to medium. These findings suggest that educational interventions more effectively promote adolescents’ sustainable behavior when tailored to their developmentally salient peer status motive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102880"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding late adolescents’ moral responsibility for climate change: The role of social-ecological factors, worry, and distancing","authors":"Amanda Rikner Martinsson ,&nbsp;Terese Glatz ,&nbsp;Maria Ojala","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing climate change requires people in the Global North to avoid high-impact behaviors like car use and air travel. Late adolescents, whose engagement in such behaviors may be restricted by age and parental decision-making, are in a crucial stage for developing a sense of moral responsibility for climate change. Understanding why some adolescents cultivate this responsibility is vital, as responsibility relates to both pro-environmental engagement and well-being. Therefore, this study aims to identify factors associated with late adolescents' sense of moral responsibility. Nature connectedness, parental descriptive norms, and macro climate-change worry have been positively linked to pro-environmental behavior in previous research, but their role in relation to moral responsibility regarding climate change remains less clear. Similarly, the relationship between distancing coping and moral responsibility is yet to be fully understood. In this study we explore ways that these factors are associated with late adolescents’ moral responsibility and examine whether these relationships differ between girls and boys. In 2023, we surveyed 619 Swedish high school students (ages 16–20). We used structural equation modeling to answer our research questions. Connectedness to nature, parental norms, worry, and distancing coping were positively associated with responsibility, with parental norms having a stronger effect for boys. Worry partially mediated how parental norms and nature connectedness related to responsibility, with a stronger mediation effect for girls in the latter relationship. Distancing coping did not moderate the relationship between worry and responsibility. Our findings are interpreted within social-ecological and emotion-norm frameworks, and we suggest promoting responsibility through nature connectedness, role modeling, and constructive worry management. Limitations, including those related to cross-sectional designs, are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102879"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The family-nature-school success pathway: Longitudinal mediation by nature contact and moderation by residential green space","authors":"Jingyi Zhang ,&nbsp;Xinyi Yang ,&nbsp;Yue Qi ,&nbsp;Xiao Yu ,&nbsp;Yinghe Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholarly interest in the link between nature and children's school success has been on the rise. However, most studies have focused primarily on academic achievement, with less attention paid to the learning process. Moreover, the mechanisms connecting nature-related variables—particularly family members' attitudes toward nature—to children's school success remain understudied. This three-year longitudinal study examined two questions: (1) whether children's nature contact mediated the relationships between family members' attitudes toward nature and their learning engagement, learning anxiety and academic achievement; and (2) whether residential green space at different spatial scales moderated these pathways. Data on nature-related and academic variables were collected across three waves for 429 Chinese children (<em>M</em>_age = 9.86, <em>SD</em> = 0.72 at T1), using subjective reports (from children) and objective geospatial data (NDVI). The results indicated that children's nature contact mediated the relationships between family members' attitudes toward nature and their subsequent learning anxiety, learning engagement, and academic achievement. Residential green space within the 500/1000-m range (instead of 50-, 100-, 250-, 300-, or 2000-m ranges) moderated the relationship between nature contact and academic achievement. For those living in lower residential green space within the 500/1000-m range, children with higher levels of nature contact exhibited better academic achievement. These findings highlight the important roles of families' attitudes toward nature, nature contact, and residential green space in school-age children's school success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102871"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the psychological and cognitive benefits of dynamic lighting in home workspaces: A clinical trial","authors":"Nina Sharp ,&nbsp;Mahya Fani ,&nbsp;Maryam Anaraki ,&nbsp;Mohammed Alrahyani ,&nbsp;Ndeye Yague ,&nbsp;Sophia Lamp ,&nbsp;Jamie Zeitzer","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addition to enabling us to see the world, light has potent impacts on a variety of brain and circadian functions. Whether the daytime pattern of this light exposure has an impact on these downstream functions is not well described. In the present study, we compared the effects of static and dynamic daytime lighting scenarios, matched for average illuminance but differing in temporal distribution, on the sleep, alertness, and cognitive performance of home-based workers residing in the Phoenix metro area, whose home office lighting levels were substantially below those recommended for non-visual responses. The static lighting scenario maintained constant light intensity and correlated color temperature (CCT), whereas the dynamic scenario mimicked daylight by varying light intensity and CCT levels throughout the working hours. In a five-week counterbalanced randomized crossover design, objective sleep, subjective alertness, and cognitive performance under the two lighting interventions were measured in 20 participants. While the different lighting scenarios did not lead to differences in most of the objective sleep outcomes, effects of both lighting conditions were observed on global cognitive scores and specific cognitive domains including working memory. This study provides preliminary evidence that enhancing light exposure in home-based office environments may support the well-being and productivity of remote workers, suggesting a promising area for further research and application.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 102870"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting the gateway belief model: The importance of climate change experience and perceived threat","authors":"Fahad Asmi ,&nbsp;Mark Morrison ,&nbsp;Kevin Parton","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Gateway Belief Model offers an elegant solution for shifting public support for climate change (and other) policy. “Gateway” beliefs have direct effects on support for the policy goal and influence other beliefs and attitudes that affect policy support, leading to an impact on policy support that is amplified by the inclusion of both direct and indirect effects. Central to the effectiveness of using the Gateway Belief Model is selecting the correct gateway belief, as well as identifying appropriate mediating variables. Using a sample of 2278 respondents, we proposed and compared three different GBM-inspired models to map public support for climate action. Specifically, we compared the role of confidence in climate science prediction and personal experience of climate change as alternative gateway beliefs, and the role of belief in climate change and perceived threat as mediating variables. We found that experience of climate change is a similarly effective GBM-inspired gateway belief as confidence in scientific prediction, while the perceived threat from climate change is a superior mediating variable. Using mediation analysis, we further analysed the effects from two variables in our revised model and demonstrated that cognitive beliefs (such as perceived threat of climate change) are a much stronger driver of policy support than emotional drivers (i.e., worry about climate change). This is important evidence given that negative emotionally-based climate drivers can produce significant negative effects on community mental health. We also examined whether our findings are robust across gender and political persuasion. While there are significant differences in beliefs and attitudes across these groups, the gateway path effects are consistent across most groups. Our findings highlight the importance in marketing communications of helping people to understand and interpret changes in climate and its consequences (as well as possible adaptation solutions).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102859"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recognizing climate change as global: Implications for environmental psychology research","authors":"Kim-Pong Tam","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102856"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychological interventions for environmental impact: A field experiment on reducing engine idling","authors":"Zoe Horsham ,&nbsp;Sarah Lily Resanovich ,&nbsp;Fanny Lalot ,&nbsp;Tim Hopthrow ,&nbsp;Dominic Abrams","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A large-scale field experiment (<em>N</em> = 8948) tested psychological interventions to reduce engine idling at short-wait stops. Persuasive messages based on social influence, informational influence, and identity-based influence/community engagement were displayed at a busy intersection. This study extends previous research by (1) considering shorter waiting times (i.e., red light stops) and (2) investigating the effect of messaging over longer time periods, including post-intervention. Compared to pre-intervention baseline, all messages significantly reduced idling rates in the first phase of the experiment, by 6–16 %. The effect was retained two weeks after signs were removed. In the second phase of the experiment, the most effective message (informational influence) was displayed again over four weeks, revealing a sustained effect on engine idling reduction that persisted one week after the sign was removed. This field experiment supports the efficacy of theory-driven messaging interventions to trigger sustained pro-environmental behavioral changes. Future studies may investigate the generalizability of the present findings to other settings. We highlight implications for psychology-based pro-environmental interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102852"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}