Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement among young people

By M. Ojala. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology

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Fear, hope, anger, and guilt in climate activism (2017, background): “In this global arena, the looming fear of climate change is contained by neoliberal and consensus-oriented technological mitigations and adaptations, seeking hope in solutions ‘outside one-self ’ (Ojala, 2012).”
Everyone Loves a Success Story: Optimism Inspires Conservation Engagement (2019, background): “Because human motivation and action are products of what one believes, rather than the objective truth, optimism infused with a sense of personal efficacy can inspire the uninspired and help maintain hope through gloomy times (Bandura 1997, Seligman 2006, Ojala 2012).”
Regulating worry, promoting hope: How do children, adolescents, and young adults cope with climate change? (2012, background): “Hope based on these strategies, as opposed to hope based on meaning-focused strategies, has been found to be negatively related to environmental engagement (Ojala, 2011).”
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.”
Framing Climate Change: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Generating Advocacy Behavior (2018, background): “This integral and beneficial role of hope complements the existing theoretical and empirical evidence, indicating that hope predicts proenvironmental attitudes and action (e.g., Ojala, 2012; Roeser, 2012; Smith & Leiserowitz, 2014).”
Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates (2021, neutral): “Climatic Change (2021) 168:20 1 3 20 Page 6 of 23 & Wettergren 2017; Ojala 2012).”
Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change (2018, background): “And while proximatising climate change can lead to greater emotional responses, the effect is reversed too: distancing oneself from climate change is thought to be a coping mechanism for potentially overwhelming feelings (Caillaud et al., 2015; Ojala, 2012a; Norgaard, 2006; Dickinson, 2009).”
Environmental education in transition: A critical review of recent research on climate change and energy education (2019, methodology): “The climate change articles that referenced energy most often in the text were quantitative studies that used individual energy behavior categories as a dependent variable (Bofferding & Kloser, 2015; Fusco, Snider, & Luo, 2012; Ojala, 2012; Walker & Redmond, 2014) and climate science studies that co”
Emotional Awareness: On the Importance of Including Emotional Aspects in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2013, neutral): “Fortunately, studies have shown that there are also other more constructive ways that people cope with global climate change (Ojala, 2012b, 2012c, 2013).”
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).”
Climate of hope or doom and gloom? Testing the climate change hope vs. fear communications debate through online videos (2021, background): “For this study, our definition of hope aligns with notions of “constructive hope” (Ojala 2012; Marlon et al. 2019) insofar as we present an optimistic outlook on humanity’s prospects for tackling climate change based on technological and policy solutions that can now be actualized (rather than a fat”
How do children cope with global climate change? Coping strategies, engagement, and well-being (2012, neutral): “In addition, when a person takes global environmental problems seriously and when hope is based on positive reappraisal and trust, this emotional cognitive concept has been found to relate positively to environmental engagement (Ojala, 2008, 2011).”
Green Consumerism: Moral Motivations to a Sustainable Future (2015, background): “, positive feeling) perspectives and motivates pro-environmental behavior, particularly among young adults — even when controlling for the types of values described in the previous section [24,25].”
Youth perceptions of climate change: A narrative synthesis (2020, background): “A more complex explanation suggests that rejection of climate change or reduced concern and willingness to act, may reflect coping strategies for young people who feel powerless to exert change (Ojala, 2012a, 2012b).”
Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “tions that can lead to positive outcomes in the face of public health problems can produce positive emotions, such as hope or joy (Nabi et al., 2018; Ojala, 2012), which can increase reception to the message by reframing the issue as being more personally relevant (Monahan,”
Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change (2019, background): “Thus, given the high uncertainty of specific future climate changes, anxiety is a common affective response to climate change (Ojala 2012; Wright and Nyberg 2012; Brugger et al. 2013; Cunsolo Willox et al. 2013; Weintrobe 2013; Robbins and Moore 2013).”