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{"title":"Examining the (non-linear) relationships between climate change anxiety, information seeking, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions","authors":"Daniel A. Chapman ,&nbsp;Ellen Peters","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change anxiety—overwhelming feelings of distress about climate change—is increasingly recognized as an important mental health consequence of climate change. A growing body of literature has documented positive associations between climate change anxiety, information seeking/avoidance, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions. Recent speculation exists about the possibility of non-linear associations between climate anxiety and other outcomes; for example, among people with very high climate anxiety, information seeking might be lower— because it is too distressing —than among those with moderate anxiety. Similarly, very high levels of climate anxiety might result in lower behavioral intentions. The present research aimed to replicate and extend findings concerning relations between climate anxiety, information seeking/avoidance, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions by correlating these variables and testing for possible non-linearities in the relationships. Results confirmed that climate anxiety was positively correlated with information seeking, avoidance, and a measure of hypothetical behavioral intentions. Quadratic regression models yielded mixed evidence for the presence of non-linearities, with non-linearity present for some variables (e.g., information avoidance and hypothetical behavioral intentions) but not for others (e.g., seeking out data about climate change). We consider implications of our results and discuss directions for future research to bolster understanding of how climate anxiety relates to information seeking, avoidance, and behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102440"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323410","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":"Adapting and validating a game-based testing instrument for measuring nature connectedness in children","authors":"Junqing Zhai ,&nbsp;Jie Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aimed to adapt and validate a Canadian-developed instrument for measuring nature connectedness among young children in China. Nature connectedness, which encompasses emotional, cognitive, and experiential relationships with the natural environment, is linked to various positive outcomes in children, including well-being, eco-friendly behaviors, and academic success. However, existing instruments, which often rely on self-reports, face challenges when applied to young children due to dependence on introspective and expressive abilities and issues with cultural relevance across diverse settings. To address these limitations, this research adapted and validated a game-based instrument through three steps: adaptation for cultural relevance and linguistic accuracy, expert review for content validity, and empirical testing for construct validity. The initial adaptation was informed by a pilot study with 38 children in Hangzhou, which led to further modifications based on feedback. The adapted Chinese version was tested with 406 kindergartners from Hangzhou and Shanghai, demonstrating good reliability and validity in measuring nature connectedness in this population. Findings indicate that the adapted instrument effectively captures the dimensions of nature connectedness among young Chinese children, validating its feasibility of adapting for use in non-Western contexts. This research underscores the importance of culturally sensitive tools in environmental psychology and education, offering a valuable methodology for understanding and enhancing children's connections with nature across different cultural backgrounds. The study contributes to developing educational strategies and environmental policies to foster a deep, enduring relationship between children and the natural world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102439"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311028","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":"Examining affordances of outdoor natural versus built environments","authors":"Shu Jiang ,&nbsp;Alexa Ott,&nbsp;Cassidy J. Burt ,&nbsp;Kerry L. Marsh","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Whereas previous psychological research has examined the benefits of nature from a stress-reduction and attention-restoration perspective, the current studies focus on what possibilities for action are evoked by natural versus built environments. After a study pilot-testing a novel self-administration procedure for soliciting what individuals feel they “could do” in a built or natural outdoor site after walking in it, two studies were conducted to test quantitative differences in the action possibilities (i.e., affordances) that walkers detected when moving through a built or a natural site. A naturalistic study involved community participants who were recruited on-site at one of 12 built or natural sites within the same region of a community. A field experiment involved college students randomly assigned to walk one of four sites (forest or meadow, or one of two areas within the downtown of a small town). No reliable differences were detected in number of responses to the prompt “I could …” completed by participants as a function of natural versus built sites. However, in the field experiment, participants in built rather than natural sites generated more verb and social content, and more total words. In the experiment, participants who walked natural sites had more improvement in positive affect than those who walked built sites.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102437"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142441307","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 chicken or the egg? Spillover between private climate action and climate policy support","authors":"John Thøgersen ,&nbsp;Arild Vatn ,&nbsp;Marianne Aasen","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>People engage in many different activities with climate consequences, including mundane everyday activities, such as eating meals and either saving or throwing away leftovers, and collective actions, such as voting, participating in political events and in other ways expressing support for or resistance against climate-relevant policy. Does engaging in everyday climate-relevant activities have implications for support of climate policy, and vice versa, as suggested by research on pro-environmental behavioural spillover? A repeated survey was collected yearly between 2018 and 2022 from representative samples of Norwegians, most of whom participated in more than one survey. The surveys included self-reports about two everyday climate-relevant behaviours (eating red meat and discarding food waste) and the support for two types of policy to mitigate climate change (expansion of wind power and “carbon taxes” – the use of taxes or fees to regulate climate-relevant behaviour). Cross-lagged structural equation modelling of relationships between everyday climate-relevant behaviour and support for mitigation policy reveal that, as expected, all auto-regressive effects (of a latent variable on itself, measured one year apart) are highly significant. There are also significant, positive cross-lagged (i.e., spillover) effects, which are generally bigger between the two types of everyday behaviours and support for the two types of policies than between everyday behaviour and policy support. However, support for carbon taxes has a strong positive effect on reducing meat consumption. Hence, it appears that when it comes to climate actions, consumer and citizen roles are intertwined. Spillover effects are partly mediated through climate concern.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102434"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027249442400207X/pdfft?md5=4642a557a25604ab0d22cfe2c923c2fc&pid=1-s2.0-S027249442400207X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measures of Children's concerns and attitudes in relation to environmental crises: A systematic review","authors":"Kalliopi Demetriou,&nbsp;Samridha S.J.B. Rana,&nbsp;Joanne Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102433","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children are being constantly exposed to threatening news about ongoing environmental crises leading to the experience of concerns and worries about current and future consequences for their life and our planet. It is important to deepen our understanding of the interplay of factors that shape children's concerns and attitudes in relation to environmental crises to effectively support children in channelling their energy into proactive environmental actions whilst protecting their wellbeing. To progress this field of knowledge, research relies on well-validated measures that address and operationalise these factors. Hence, the current study systematically reviews literature on measures of children's concerns and attitudes in relation to environmental crises. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, six databases were searched for relevant studies. A total of 41 studies on the development and/or evaluation of 21 measures addressing children's concerns and attitudes in response to environmental crises were identified. Analysis of the content of measures demonstrated that cognitive and behavioural aspects are well covered, whereas there is less focus on emotional aspects in the current literature. The quality of measures was assessed based on their reported psychometric properties and illustrated varying levels of supporting evidence for each measure. The individual studies were assessed for Risk of Bias using the Appraisal tool for Cross-Sectional Studies and studies overall received favourable ratings. Strengths and limitations of the literature and current review are discussed alongside recommendations for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102433"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424002068/pdfft?md5=7716f3aca126ac8159eb1a6370360398&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424002068-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups","authors":"Viren Swami ,&nbsp;Mathew P. White ,&nbsp;Martin Voracek ,&nbsp;Ulrich S. Tran ,&nbsp;Toivo Aavik ,&nbsp;Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar ,&nbsp;Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo ,&nbsp;Reza Afhami ,&nbsp;Oli Ahmed ,&nbsp;Annie Aimé ,&nbsp;Marwan Akel ,&nbsp;Hussam Al Halbusi ,&nbsp;George Alexias ,&nbsp;Khawla F. Ali ,&nbsp;Nursel Alp-Dal ,&nbsp;Anas B. Alsalhani ,&nbsp;Sara Álvarez-Solas ,&nbsp;Ana Carolina Soares Amaral ,&nbsp;Sonny Andrianto ,&nbsp;Trefor Aspden ,&nbsp;Stefan Stieger","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102432","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102432","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic groups. Therefore, we used data from the Body Image in Nature Survey to assess measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (<em>N</em> = 56,968). While multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) of the <span>NES</span> supported full scalar invariance across gender identities and age groups, only partial scalar invariance was supported across national and linguistic groups. MG-CFA of the <span>CNS</span> also supported full scalar invariance across gender identities and age groups, but only partial scalar invariance of a 7-item version of the <span>CNS</span> across national and linguistic groups. Nation-level associations between NES and CNS scores were negligible, likely reflecting a lack of conceptual clarity over what the NES is measuring. Individual-level associations between both measures and sociodemographic variables were weak. Findings suggest that the CNS-7 may be a useful tool to measure nature connectedness globally, but measures other than the NES may be needed to capture nature exposure cross-culturally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102432"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424002056/pdfft?md5=2d688136bac2cda9f61842ef0e224558&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424002056-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Good city and nice people: The impact of the perceived built environment on prosocial tendencies, flourishing, depression, and anxiety","authors":"Zhenyu Wei ,&nbsp;Xiangshu Deng ,&nbsp;Hang Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102431","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102431","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous studies have reported that the built environment plays a key role in promoting prosocial behaviors. However, to date, the potential positive psychological mechanisms underlying the association between built environment and prosocial behaviors in urban adult residents have not been well examined. To fill this research gap, the present study explored the mediation pathway from the perceived built environment to prosocial tendencies from a positive psychology perspective. Moreover, the present study focused on the moderating effects of depression and anxiety on this mediation pathway. A sample of 1150 urban community-dwelling adults completed questionnaires that assessed the perceived built environment, flourishing, prosocial tendencies, depression symptoms, and severity of anxiety. The results of the mediation model analysis demonstrated that the positive effect of perceived built environment on prosocial tendencies was partially mediated by flourishing. Furthermore, using a moderated mediation model analysis, we found that depression and anxiety moderated the link between perceived built environment and prosocial tendencies via flourishing. More specifically, the effect of the perceived built environment on flourishing was stronger for residents who experienced high levels of depression and anxiety than for those who experienced low levels of depression and anxiety. Additionally, we found that depression and anxiety moderated the mediating effect of flourishing. Compared with residents without a risk of depression and anxiety, individuals experiencing high levels of depression and anxiety obtained more psychosocial benefits derived from the high quality of the built environment. Overall, these findings provide an empirical contribution to the human-environment interaction research field and increase the precision of urban-based interventions and policies for the promotion of human well-being in urban contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102431"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142319089","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":"Independent mobility and outdoor play time: Insights from urban informal settlements in India","authors":"Uchita Vaid","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study assesses differences in children's independent mobility and outdoor play time between two urban informal housing settlements within India's <em>in-situ</em> slum redevelopment policy. This redevelopment policy involves replacement of existing slum housing with new apartment-style structures at the original site. One of the settlements under study has undergone redevelopment, while the other remains on the waitlist for redevelopment. Additionally, the study explores potential gender-based variations in independent mobility and outdoor play time, shedding light on the distinct effects of redevelopment on boys and girls. Questionnaires were administered to mothers, addressing aspects such as independent mobility licenses, the range of independent mobility, the age at which mobility licenses are granted, and the duration of outdoor play of children. Findings show that children in slum settlement were reported to have more mobility licenses, broader independent mobility range, and earlier licenses than children in redeveloped settlement. Gender differences are evident, with girls in redeveloped settlement receiving mobility licenses later than both boys and girls in slum settlement, but boys' age at which they received independent mobility licenses remained consistent regardless of their place of residence. Boys in the redeveloped settlement engage in more outdoor play time than boys and girls in slum settlement. Conversely, girls in slum settlement participate in more outdoor play time than those in redeveloped settlement. These findings have important implications for slum redevelopment policies, highlighting the need to consider morphological aspects of residential environments that support girls' outdoor play time and independent mobility. It is crucial that these considerations be integrated into the design of redeveloped settlements to ensure equitable development of children in such communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102430"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243354","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 ability to choose how to interact with other people in the park space and its role in terms of perceived safety and preference","authors":"Aleksandra Lis ,&nbsp;Karolina Zalewska ,&nbsp;Marek Grabowski","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102429","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102429","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>City parks are appreciated as spaces conducive to social interactions, but they are less often considered in the context that they might satisfy a need for privacy. There is a lack of research that tests the impact of various spatial features of parks (including vegetation features) on fulfilling this need and explaining the mechanisms of such impact, including the role played by sense of safety. This article fills this research gap.</div><div>The key variable whose role we tested in three models was the ability to choose whether or not to interact with other people in a park space. We tested two hypotheses. In the first, we checked whether the ability to choose to interact with other people and sense of safety are variables, that explains how the quantity of greenery constituting a viewing obstruction (high and medium) in a park space impacts preference. The second hypothesis assumed that safety explains how and why desired privacy and the ability to choose social interactions with other people in a park space affect preferences towards this space. We analysed correlations between variables and mediating effects. For this purpose, we employed a within-subjects design in which 243 participants evaluated a set of 120 eye-level photographs of park landscapes according to perceived safety, desired privacy, landscape preference and the ability to choose to interact with other people. We calculated the quantity of greenery in the photos as the percentage coverage of the frame with high and medium greenery.</div><div>We tested the hypotheses by analysing a number of mediation models. Both hypotheses were partially confirmed. The positive relationship between quantity of greenery and preferences is mediated by the ability to choose to interact with other people in a given space but not because of safety. At the same time, safety explains the positive impact of desired privacy on preferences by weakening it, but does not explain the impact of interaction choice on preferences. This means, inter alia, that spaces offering a choice of interactions are preferred – and the fact that they may be accompanied by reduced safety is not significant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102429"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142358536","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":"Nudging pro-environmental behaviour in a subsidized waste recycling system: A field experimental study","authors":"Andris Saulītis ,&nbsp;Vineta Silkāne,&nbsp;Gerda Ajanta Gaile","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102416","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102416","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the effect of nudging within a recycling system that views households as rational actors swayed by economic incentives to foster pro-environmental behaviour. In a field experiment involving over 10,000 Latvian households, we invited them to sign up for recyclables containers by emphasizing either the economic gains or losses associated with such a move. Alternatively, households were primed with social norms or received a message that altered the choice architecture by explicitly asking for feedback. Our findings complement the development of behavioural theories by demonstrating how intrinsic and extrinsic motivations interact with systemic factors. While all interventions increased container uptake relative to the no-message condition, the majority of households remained non-responsive. This indifference underscores the limitations of subsidized waste recycling systems, illustrating how minor alterations in contextual elements and choice architecture may not suffice to instigate meaningful behavioural shifts within such structured frameworks. The results emphasize that significant pro-environmental behaviour requires more than just nudging or financial incentives; nudges are crucial in highlighting systemic shortcomings and pointing towards more effective engagement strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102416"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001890/pdfft?md5=2622bbe91954271ee8ce37601f4b4203&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001890-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}