Climate anxiety in the Philippines: Current situation, potential pathways, and ways forward

The evolution of ocean literacy: A new framework for the United Nations Ocean Decade and beyond

“…If communications are not designed appropriately, they could disengage and disempower the very audiences and actors it seeks to attract and mobilise into action and change, thereby negatively impacting levels of ocean literacy rather than enhancing them. In line with previous studies, we suggest that communications create a balance between constructive hope, responsibility, and wellbeing (e.g., human progress and bright spots in the marine environment; Cvitanovic and Hobday, 2018) and with elements of constructive doubt (e.g., the reality of the threat facing the marine and coastal environments and the need for more action), to mobilise for the ocean (Aruta and Guinto, 2022;Marlon et al, 2019). There has been growing support for approaches which move away from a communication echo chamber of 'ocean calamities' and instead embraces realistic, solution driven ocean optimism (Borja et al, 2022).…”

Environmental psychology in the Philippines: Growth, challenges and prospects

“…One promising research agenda is the climate change and mental health nexus (Aruta, 2022d; Aruta, Crisostomo, et al, 2022; Guinto et al, 2021) including the study of climate anxiety (i.e., distress experienced due to ecological crisis) in Filipino youth (see Aruta & Guinto, 2022; Aruta & Simon, 2022). Climate‐related emotions including anxiety (i.e., psychological distress due to climate change and ecological crisis) were found to be associated with mental health (Ogunbode et al, 2021; Reyes et al, 2021) and adaptation behaviours among young Filipinos (Simon et al, 2022).…”

The Psychology of Well-Being in the Margins: Voices from and Prospects for South Asia and Southeast Asia

“…But aside from COVID-19, South Asian and Southeast Asian psychologists can also investigate the role of other powerful social changes in shaping people’s well-being. There has been some inquiry on well-being amid climate change (Aruta & Guinto, 2022 ; Kumar et al, 2021 ), after war and conflict (Milazzo & Cuesta, 2021 ), rapid economic growth (Cai et al, 2021 ), the rise of information and communications technology (Lim et al, 2021 ), among others. There has even been research on how representations of important national historical events relate to well-being of people (Lim & Leong, 2021 ).…”