Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1851877
Beatriz Carmona, Ana Loureiro, M. Aguilar-Luzón
ABSTRACT The Environmental Action Scale (EAS) is an 18-item questionnaire designed to assess the degree of involvement in collective actions in favour of the environment. This scale is of interest for research in environmental domains, particularly the recent study of environmental activism. The main objective of this study is to contribute to the adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the EAS. The EAS Portuguese version — following its adaptation — was administered to a total of 346 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the two dimensions considered by the authors of the original version: participatory actions and leadership actions. In addition, evidence of validity was obtained based on the relationship with other variables such as environmental identity. In conclusion, the Portuguese version maintains the 18 items and replicates the two-factor structure, showing good psychometric properties.
{"title":"Environmental Action Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version (Escala de Acciones Ambientales: propiedades psicométricas de la versión portuguesa)","authors":"Beatriz Carmona, Ana Loureiro, M. Aguilar-Luzón","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1851877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1851877","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Environmental Action Scale (EAS) is an 18-item questionnaire designed to assess the degree of involvement in collective actions in favour of the environment. This scale is of interest for research in environmental domains, particularly the recent study of environmental activism. The main objective of this study is to contribute to the adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the EAS. The EAS Portuguese version — following its adaptation — was administered to a total of 346 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the two dimensions considered by the authors of the original version: participatory actions and leadership actions. In addition, evidence of validity was obtained based on the relationship with other variables such as environmental identity. In conclusion, the Portuguese version maintains the 18 items and replicates the two-factor structure, showing good psychometric properties.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"3 1","pages":"24 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78856871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1782040
D. Martens, Heike Molitor
ABSTRACT Nature experiences are important aspects in the development of children, with positive effects on the physical, mental and social level. Nature experience areas, that is, play areas with natural elements only, instead of constructed play elements, address the aim to support child development. This article analyses the effects of three nature experience areas in a metropolitan area, compared with three playgrounds serving as control areas. In a quasi-experimental design, behaviour observations on play behaviour and autonomy of children playing in either nature experience areas or control playgrounds were conducted in 2017. Results show that the play of children in the nature experience areas was more complex than that of those on the playground. The frequencies of children playing in nature experience areas are lower than on the playground. The autonomous behaviour, measured by social interactions, the involvement of adults and an autonomous mobility, shows a differentiated picture between the three areas. Natural experience areas could provide important aspects to support child developments, and improvements are being discussed.
{"title":"Play in appropriate natural environments to support child development (Fomento del desarrollo infantil mediante el juego en entornos naturales apropiados)","authors":"D. Martens, Heike Molitor","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1782040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1782040","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Nature experiences are important aspects in the development of children, with positive effects on the physical, mental and social level. Nature experience areas, that is, play areas with natural elements only, instead of constructed play elements, address the aim to support child development. This article analyses the effects of three nature experience areas in a metropolitan area, compared with three playgrounds serving as control areas. In a quasi-experimental design, behaviour observations on play behaviour and autonomy of children playing in either nature experience areas or control playgrounds were conducted in 2017. Results show that the play of children in the nature experience areas was more complex than that of those on the playground. The frequencies of children playing in nature experience areas are lower than on the playground. The autonomous behaviour, measured by social interactions, the involvement of adults and an autonomous mobility, shows a differentiated picture between the three areas. Natural experience areas could provide important aspects to support child developments, and improvements are being discussed.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"22 1","pages":"363 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89048899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2019.1659029
Laura Pasca, J. Aragonés, B. Fraijo-Sing
Abstract The concept of nature frequently appears in the literature, and yet it has rarely been explained. One way of understanding it makes reference to the degree of human intervention, creating a classification on a continuum from totally natural to non-natural environments. In order to identify the empirical categories into which this continuum is organized, two studies were carried out. In the first, 99 Spanish participants evaluated 150 photographs in accordance with their degree of naturalness in order to obtain a set of 50 photographs. In the second, 50 Spanish and 48 Mexican participants ordered the photographs in accordance with their own personal criteria. The results show that people organize landscapes in accordance with the presence or absence of buildings, and that each of these two categories comprises a further three subcategories. This fact could be useful when studying the impact of these environments on aspects such as connectedness or well-being.
{"title":"Categorizing landscapes: Approaching the concept of Nature (Categorizando paisajes: una aproximación al concepto de naturaleza)","authors":"Laura Pasca, J. Aragonés, B. Fraijo-Sing","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2019.1659029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2019.1659029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The concept of nature frequently appears in the literature, and yet it has rarely been explained. One way of understanding it makes reference to the degree of human intervention, creating a classification on a continuum from totally natural to non-natural environments. In order to identify the empirical categories into which this continuum is organized, two studies were carried out. In the first, 99 Spanish participants evaluated 150 photographs in accordance with their degree of naturalness in order to obtain a set of 50 photographs. In the second, 50 Spanish and 48 Mexican participants ordered the photographs in accordance with their own personal criteria. The results show that people organize landscapes in accordance with the presence or absence of buildings, and that each of these two categories comprises a further three subcategories. This fact could be useful when studying the impact of these environments on aspects such as connectedness or well-being.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"34 1","pages":"342 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81003347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-10DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1778388
Samantha Tomasi, S. Di Nuovo, M. Hidalgo
ABSTRACT This paper sets out to investigate the relationship between environment and mental health, and specifically between contact with nature and the presence of well-being, satisfaction with life, personality traits and symptoms of anxiety and depression. The sample comprised 59 people aged 18 to 70, and included 29 subjects from Spain and 30 from Italy. The following tests were utilized: a questionnaire about the frequency of activities carried out in natural surroundings, the Five Factor Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory II, the Satisfaction With Life Scale and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. All variables were analysed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient with the exception of level of education, which was analysed using Spearman’s coefficient. The results suggest that contact with nature positively affects well-being and satisfaction with life, and that there is a negative correlation between contact with nature and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
{"title":"Environment and mental health: empirical study on the relationship between contact with nature and symptoms of anxiety and depression (Ambiente y salud mental: estudio empírico sobre la relación entre contacto con la naturaleza, síntomas de ansiedad y de depresión)","authors":"Samantha Tomasi, S. Di Nuovo, M. Hidalgo","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1778388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1778388","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper sets out to investigate the relationship between environment and mental health, and specifically between contact with nature and the presence of well-being, satisfaction with life, personality traits and symptoms of anxiety and depression. The sample comprised 59 people aged 18 to 70, and included 29 subjects from Spain and 30 from Italy. The following tests were utilized: a questionnaire about the frequency of activities carried out in natural surroundings, the Five Factor Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory II, the Satisfaction With Life Scale and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. All variables were analysed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient with the exception of level of education, which was analysed using Spearman’s coefficient. The results suggest that contact with nature positively affects well-being and satisfaction with life, and that there is a negative correlation between contact with nature and symptoms of anxiety and depression.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"66 1","pages":"319 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73572882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1734411
G. Carrus, S. Pirchio, L. Tiberio
In this paper, we present a special issue of PsyEcology that contains a selection of papers submitted by registered participants to the 25th IAPS Conference, held in Rome, Italy, from 8–13 July 2018, under the theme ‘Transitions to sustainability, lifestyles changes and human well-being: cultural, environmental and political challenges.’ The theme of the 25th IAPS 2018 Rome Conference was chosen to ensure a continuity with the previous IAPS Conferences, held every two years in Lund/Alnarp, Timisoara, Glasgow and Leipzig between 2010 and 2016, respectively. The choice of this theme was meant to purposively underline the importance of the everyday life contexts to understand people–environment relations in present-day human societies. In the Rome 2018 Conference, which saw the participation of more than 500 registered participants, a large number of scientific works that were presented in the symposia, thematic oral sessions, poster sessions and key-note speeches went further along this thematic stream, and many of them focused on the structural, social and psychological processes needed to achieve a transition towards a more sustainable human society at the global level. As was highlighted during the conference, and as coherently reflected in the selected papers that compose this special issue, to achieve a significant shift towards a more sustainable relation between humans and their daily life environments, the need for radical lifestyle change is increasingly recognized, at the scientific, political and public opinion level. To many extents, the transition to a low-carbon, inclusive and open society has already started, under the push of different driving forces. Among these, we can mention different intergovernmental initiatives, such as the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 (Madrid, Spain, December 2019), the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit and Youth Climate Summit (both held in New York, USA, September 2019), or the launch in December 2019 of an European Union Green deal by the European Commission, under the lead of the newly appointed EC President Ursula von der Leyen, or other political initiatives that hit the attention of global media communication, such as the ‘Green New Deal’ legislation proposed by USA Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In addition to these important institutional steps, we cannot omit to mention many other bottom-up and
{"title":"Transitions to sustainability, lifestyles changes and human well-being: cultural, environmental and political challenges ((Transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad, cambios de estilos de vida y bienestar humano: desafíos culturales, medioambientales y políticos))","authors":"G. Carrus, S. Pirchio, L. Tiberio","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1734411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1734411","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a special issue of PsyEcology that contains a selection of papers submitted by registered participants to the 25th IAPS Conference, held in Rome, Italy, from 8–13 July 2018, under the theme ‘Transitions to sustainability, lifestyles changes and human well-being: cultural, environmental and political challenges.’ The theme of the 25th IAPS 2018 Rome Conference was chosen to ensure a continuity with the previous IAPS Conferences, held every two years in Lund/Alnarp, Timisoara, Glasgow and Leipzig between 2010 and 2016, respectively. The choice of this theme was meant to purposively underline the importance of the everyday life contexts to understand people–environment relations in present-day human societies. In the Rome 2018 Conference, which saw the participation of more than 500 registered participants, a large number of scientific works that were presented in the symposia, thematic oral sessions, poster sessions and key-note speeches went further along this thematic stream, and many of them focused on the structural, social and psychological processes needed to achieve a transition towards a more sustainable human society at the global level. As was highlighted during the conference, and as coherently reflected in the selected papers that compose this special issue, to achieve a significant shift towards a more sustainable relation between humans and their daily life environments, the need for radical lifestyle change is increasingly recognized, at the scientific, political and public opinion level. To many extents, the transition to a low-carbon, inclusive and open society has already started, under the push of different driving forces. Among these, we can mention different intergovernmental initiatives, such as the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 (Madrid, Spain, December 2019), the UN 2019 Climate Action Summit and Youth Climate Summit (both held in New York, USA, September 2019), or the launch in December 2019 of an European Union Green deal by the European Commission, under the lead of the newly appointed EC President Ursula von der Leyen, or other political initiatives that hit the attention of global media communication, such as the ‘Green New Deal’ legislation proposed by USA Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In addition to these important institutional steps, we cannot omit to mention many other bottom-up and","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"122 1","pages":"163 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89399561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-27DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1734399
F. Maricchiolo, Oriana Mosca, M. Lauriola, Kuba Krys
Abstract Happiness research tradition is focused on an independent form of happiness (Satisfaction with life, SWL), which in part neglects the social context and group well-being. We considered interdependent happiness (IH) to evaluate a collectivist conceptualization of happiness, which is based on harmony with others. We also considered the role of the perceived urbanization level of the place of living in the independent and interdependent happiness of people since in the literature there is no consensus about the impact of rural vs urban characterization of the living context on happiness. We hypothesized that place of living – rural vs urban – differently impacts on factors influencing independent or interdependent personal or familiar happiness. 290 university students of the Lazio Region in Italy participated to an online survey aimed to investigate the relation among self-construal, familism, personal and familiar independent and interdependent happiness. Results show that for people living in urban places, self-oriented individual factors concerned with self-realization, predicted satisfaction with life and interdependent happiness. For people living in rural places, other-oriented factors, more anchored to the group and community dimension, affected happiness for self and the family. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
{"title":"The role of urbanization of place of living in the relation between individual features and happiness (El papel del desarrollo urbanístico del lugar de residencia en la relación entre las características individuales y la felicidad)","authors":"F. Maricchiolo, Oriana Mosca, M. Lauriola, Kuba Krys","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1734399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1734399","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Happiness research tradition is focused on an independent form of happiness (Satisfaction with life, SWL), which in part neglects the social context and group well-being. We considered interdependent happiness (IH) to evaluate a collectivist conceptualization of happiness, which is based on harmony with others. We also considered the role of the perceived urbanization level of the place of living in the independent and interdependent happiness of people since in the literature there is no consensus about the impact of rural vs urban characterization of the living context on happiness. We hypothesized that place of living – rural vs urban – differently impacts on factors influencing independent or interdependent personal or familiar happiness. 290 university students of the Lazio Region in Italy participated to an online survey aimed to investigate the relation among self-construal, familism, personal and familiar independent and interdependent happiness. Results show that for people living in urban places, self-oriented individual factors concerned with self-realization, predicted satisfaction with life and interdependent happiness. For people living in rural places, other-oriented factors, more anchored to the group and community dimension, affected happiness for self and the family. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"38 4","pages":"232 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21711976.2020.1734399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72454652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1734398
Raquel Bertoldo, R. Tanga, Pierre Dias, Séverin Guignard, A. Schleyer-Lindenmann
Abstract Local communities have perfected their knowledge about their environments for generations. Considering modern management dynamics and the changing characteristics of their immediate environments, local communities must trust the authorities’ management of these risks. However, different types of risks expose these communities. This article proposes a comparative analysis of local trust dynamics between a locality in the French coast exposed to flood risks, and a town in inner Italy exposed to earthquake risks. The study focuses on how participants express calculative or relational trust through interviews. Results show that French participants consider the local risks of coastal floods to be minimal. In this sense they trust local authorities with the ability to manage these situations, even if generalized concerns over relational trust are also expressed. In Italy local inhabitants express a high awareness of earthquake risks. But the lack of preventive action from local authorities is associated with the expression of low calculative and relational trust.
{"title":"Calculative and relational trust in the management of coastal floods and earthquakes: a comparative study (Confianza calculativa y relacional en la gestión de inundaciones costeras y terremotos: un estudio comparativo)","authors":"Raquel Bertoldo, R. Tanga, Pierre Dias, Séverin Guignard, A. Schleyer-Lindenmann","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1734398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1734398","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Local communities have perfected their knowledge about their environments for generations. Considering modern management dynamics and the changing characteristics of their immediate environments, local communities must trust the authorities’ management of these risks. However, different types of risks expose these communities. This article proposes a comparative analysis of local trust dynamics between a locality in the French coast exposed to flood risks, and a town in inner Italy exposed to earthquake risks. The study focuses on how participants express calculative or relational trust through interviews. Results show that French participants consider the local risks of coastal floods to be minimal. In this sense they trust local authorities with the ability to manage these situations, even if generalized concerns over relational trust are also expressed. In Italy local inhabitants express a high awareness of earthquake risks. But the lack of preventive action from local authorities is associated with the expression of low calculative and relational trust.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"27 1","pages":"193 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83224454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1730133
J. Martínez-Soto, L. González-Santos
Abstract This paper reports on the affective psychological restoration achieved through exposure to images with varying degrees of restorative potential. By means of an experimental paradigm to evaluate psychological restoration, 55 university students were grouped into two experimental conditions: environments with a high level of restorative potential (HRP; 23, mean age M = 23.70, SD = 5.66) and a low level of restorative potential (LRP; 32, mean age M = 23.31, SD = 1.89). Self-reported scores for stress, fatigue, vigour and arousal were evaluated in both groups, considering a baseline state, after exposure to a stressor, and subsequent to exposure to an environmental condition. After creating a need for restoration, exposure to HRP environments had positive effects on the measures of affect (recovery from stress, reduction in fatigue, greater vitality and arousal), and a significant decrease in levels of vigour post environmental exposure. The results allow us to quantify the impact of a bank of restorative images on the affective restoration of a Mexican population.
{"title":"Affective psychological restoration through mediated exposure to the environment (Restauración psicológica afectiva a partir de la exposición mediada del ambiente)","authors":"J. Martínez-Soto, L. González-Santos","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1730133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1730133","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reports on the affective psychological restoration achieved through exposure to images with varying degrees of restorative potential. By means of an experimental paradigm to evaluate psychological restoration, 55 university students were grouped into two experimental conditions: environments with a high level of restorative potential (HRP; 23, mean age M = 23.70, SD = 5.66) and a low level of restorative potential (LRP; 32, mean age M = 23.31, SD = 1.89). Self-reported scores for stress, fatigue, vigour and arousal were evaluated in both groups, considering a baseline state, after exposure to a stressor, and subsequent to exposure to an environmental condition. After creating a need for restoration, exposure to HRP environments had positive effects on the measures of affect (recovery from stress, reduction in fatigue, greater vitality and arousal), and a significant decrease in levels of vigour post environmental exposure. The results allow us to quantify the impact of a bank of restorative images on the affective restoration of a Mexican population.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"7 1","pages":"289 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88701837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-26DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1728654
H. Barros, José Q. Pinheiro
Abstract The intensification of climate change (CC) is influenced by human actions, adding relevance to psychological studies about the matter. This study investigated the perception of CC by adolescents and its possible relationship to sustainable lifestyle indicators (SLIs). A multi-method exploratory approach to this subject was divided into two stages: a questionnaire applied to 484 students and subsequent focus groups with some of those students. The results revealed that: causes and consequences of CC were by far the most mentioned constituents of its definition; participants were able to describe local implications of CC; and focus groups offered an opportunity for deepening and strengthening their responses to the questionnaire. A spatial optimism bias was identified: adolescents expressed more concern about the world situation as compared to that of their own city. The study indicates possible pathways towards the engagement of adolescents in climate change mitigation, as in the case of environmental care practices and connectedness to nature, significantly associated with aspects of CC perception.
{"title":"Climate change perception by adolescents: reflections on sustainable lifestyle, local impacts and optimism bias (Percepción del cambio climático en adolescentes. Reflexiones sobre los estilos de vida sostenibles, el impacto local y el sesgo optimista)","authors":"H. Barros, José Q. Pinheiro","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1728654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1728654","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The intensification of climate change (CC) is influenced by human actions, adding relevance to psychological studies about the matter. This study investigated the perception of CC by adolescents and its possible relationship to sustainable lifestyle indicators (SLIs). A multi-method exploratory approach to this subject was divided into two stages: a questionnaire applied to 484 students and subsequent focus groups with some of those students. The results revealed that: causes and consequences of CC were by far the most mentioned constituents of its definition; participants were able to describe local implications of CC; and focus groups offered an opportunity for deepening and strengthening their responses to the questionnaire. A spatial optimism bias was identified: adolescents expressed more concern about the world situation as compared to that of their own city. The study indicates possible pathways towards the engagement of adolescents in climate change mitigation, as in the case of environmental care practices and connectedness to nature, significantly associated with aspects of CC perception.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"62 1","pages":"260 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86733385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-16DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2020.1728652
L. M. Heidbreder, M. Schmitt
Abstract Addressing the prevalent topic of plastic pollution, an intervention to break people’s consumption patterns was implemented. It was investigated if Lent could work as a ‘window of opportunity’ of habit change, expecting people to be open to try new behaviour in this period. An online survey was conducted before, during and after Lent. 140 persons in three different intervention groups, including an invitation to the plastic challenge (baseline), information about problems (group I) and information about action steps (group II) participated by the end. Mixed ANOVA revealed a reduction of plastic consumption during Lent (d = 0.69). This effect was maintained even after Lent. Informational approaches showed no further effect. Path analysis revealed insights in antecedents of fasting behaviour and habit change. Intention, previous behaviour and moral norms were direct predictors of plastic reduction during Lent. In turn, people who reduced plastic consumption in this period continued it after Lent independent of other constructs. Implications of these results are discussed.
{"title":"Fasting plastic: an intervention study to break habits of plastic consumption (Ayuno de plástico: una intervención para cambiar los hábitos de consumo de plásticos)","authors":"L. M. Heidbreder, M. Schmitt","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2020.1728652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1728652","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Addressing the prevalent topic of plastic pollution, an intervention to break people’s consumption patterns was implemented. It was investigated if Lent could work as a ‘window of opportunity’ of habit change, expecting people to be open to try new behaviour in this period. An online survey was conducted before, during and after Lent. 140 persons in three different intervention groups, including an invitation to the plastic challenge (baseline), information about problems (group I) and information about action steps (group II) participated by the end. Mixed ANOVA revealed a reduction of plastic consumption during Lent (d = 0.69). This effect was maintained even after Lent. Informational approaches showed no further effect. Path analysis revealed insights in antecedents of fasting behaviour and habit change. Intention, previous behaviour and moral norms were direct predictors of plastic reduction during Lent. In turn, people who reduced plastic consumption in this period continued it after Lent independent of other constructs. Implications of these results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"55 1","pages":"170 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90577468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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