How do children cope with global climate change? Coping strategies, engagement, and well-being

By M. Ojala. 2012

320 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton
3. A. Cunsolo
4. Jacqueline Middleton
5. C. Ogunbode
6. C. Baker
7. E. Bragg
8. M. Ojala

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton
3. C. Baker
4. E. Bragg
5. A. Cunsolo
6. Jacqueline Middleton
7. C. Ogunbode
8. M. Ojala

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton
3. C. Baker
4. E. Bragg
5. Jacqueline Middleton
6. A. Cunsolo
7. C. Ogunbode
8. M. Ojala

Citations in the corpus

• Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change (2020, background): “One study of children’s responses to climate change revealed that youth who take action, a coping method known as problemfocused coping, were more likely to experience negative effects of anxiety or depression than youth who do not act (Ojala 2012a).”
• Emotional Awareness: On the Importance of Including Emotional Aspects in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2013, unknown): “Fortunately, studies have shown that there are also other more constructive ways that people cope with global climate change (Ojala, 2012b, 2012c, 2013).”
• Climate change skepticism among adolescents (2015, background): “In cross-sectional studies of young people it has been found that the tendency to de-emphasize the climate threat is negatively related to environmental efficacy (Ojala 2012b, 2013).”
• Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review (2021, methodology): “For example,Ojala and colleagues (42, 104) found that young people actively cope with climate change, and these coping strategies are differently related to well-being and engagement.”
• Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change. (2020, background): “Ojala (2012), (2015) studied responses to climate change among children and adolescents in order to identify their commonly used strategies for coping, as well as the effectiveness of different strategies.”
• Regulating worry, promoting hope: How do children, adolescents, and young adults cope with climate change? (2012, background): “That the examples are concrete is important, since at least one study has found that problem-focused strategies aimed more at searching for information and planning than at concrete action are related to worry about climate change among children, and more importantly, to negative emotions in general”
• Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “Important pioneers in studying matters close to eco-anxiety in EE theory have been Maria Ojala, Elin Kelsey, John Hicks, and Paul Maiteny.”