Environmental psychology in the Philippines: Growth, challenges and prospects

Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.

doi:10.1002/ijop.12896

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“…Scale development and psychometric validation took place in Australia for the Environmental Distress Scale (Higginbotham et al, 2006), in Australia and New Zea land for the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (Hogg et al, 2021), and in a largely White American sample for the Climate Anxiety Scale (Clayton & Karazsia, 2020). This narrow focus re flects the larger generalizability issue within the WEIRD-skewed field of environmental psychology (Aruta, 2023;Tam & Milfont, 2020), further challenged by well-established cultural differences in emotion expression and regulation between Western, independent, individualistic versus Eastern, interdependent, collectivist cultures (Tsai et al, 2006). Construct labeling also matters; linguistic variation-e.g., grief is more similar to regret in Persian but to anxiety in Dargwa (Jackson et al, 2019)-and even wording choice within unilingual measures-e.g., 'climate change' versus 'global warming' (Schuldt et al, 2017)-may lead to different results.…”

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A new planetary affective science framework for eco-emotions: Findings on eco-anger, eco-grief, and eco-anxiety

Voşki,

Wong-Parodi,

Ardoin

2023

Glob. Environ. Psychol.

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Emotions play a critical role in human health and behavior yet have largely been overlooked in the context of the global environmental crisis (GEC). Despite recent emphasis on climate anxiety and eco-anxiety, there is a lack of psychometric or dimensional measures assessing the fuller range of GEC-associated emotions, especially beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) contexts. Further conceptual gaps hinder structured inquiry and generalizability. This exploratory study applies a new planetary affective science framework to holistically and systematically address these issues. We used a circumplex model to map core affect and structured interviews with 15 Turkish environmentalists to explore the range of eco-emotions. Our findings suggest the prevalence of eco-anger and eco-grief over the eco-anxiety most often assessed in WEIRD contexts. Similar findings in post-disaster situations underscore participants’ heightened vulnerability to cumulative stressors and the dangers of emotion-specific omissions (e.g., anger) in assessment tools. We identified environmental justice, developing country tension, self-efficacy dimensions, and responsibility attributions to the Turkish government and Global North as key contextual factors in these differentiated eco-emotional patterns. Findings constitute the first step toward more holistic, diverse, and conceptually rigorous eco-emotions research, urgently needed for more effective pro-environmental health and behavioral interventions amidst the intensifying GEC.

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A new planetary affective science framework for eco-emotions: Findings on eco-anger, eco-grief, and eco-anxiety

Voşki,

Wong-Parodi,

Ardoin

2023

Glob. Environ. Psychol.

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“…First, it may be useful if some researchers take initiative to show how certain perspectives from developing countries are underrepresented in the growth of scientific fields. For example, Aruta (2023) has illustrated how the body of knowledge in environmental psychology could be enriched by insights from the Philippines. This could create opportunities for research collaborations within a country, as well as trigger interest by researchers in developing countries.…”

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Behavioral Interventions for Climate Mitigation in Developing Countries: Overview and Prospects

Drews

Bergh

2023

The Journal of Environment & Development

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Behavioral interventions are increasingly being considered as useful complements of traditional climate-policy instruments. These interventions are so far mostly being studied and applied in high-income countries. Here, we examine their application to achieve carbon emissions reduction in low- and middle-income countries. This involves synthesizing evidence from meta-analyses and systematic reviews from developed countries and deriving general insights for developing countries. We also review evidence from primary studies in developing countries, organizing insights by major world regions. We discuss context dependence of findings, as well to what extent behavioral interventions are complementary to, and create synergies with, other policy instruments. We hope that the present overview serves as starting point to expand the currently small evidence base on climate-relevant behavioral interventions in developing countries. Suggestions are made how to move this research forward.

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