Start Date
18-12-2020 10:05 AM
Description
Climate change poses a great challenge that must be addressed, but in order to make substantive progress in mitigating and reversing climate change, we must first examine the root causes of our inaction. This includes our desire to not think or talk about climate change due to the anxiety and distress it can incur. While many have examined the psychology of why climate change is difficult for us, fewer have considered ways in which we can better foster emotional resilience, an understanding of which is imperative. To build upon previous work and further our understanding in this area, I hope to test three different climate change education courses that will reveal whether group-based and solution-focused communication can allow for maintenance of both mental health and climate advocacy. The results of this study would allow me to discern how support from others and sense of agency with knowledge of environmental actions can aid our approach to tackling climate change. With our time to stop climate change running short, this is an urgent question which I hope to give insight to.
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Environmental Activism and Emotional Resilience
Climate change poses a great challenge that must be addressed, but in order to make substantive progress in mitigating and reversing climate change, we must first examine the root causes of our inaction. This includes our desire to not think or talk about climate change due to the anxiety and distress it can incur. While many have examined the psychology of why climate change is difficult for us, fewer have considered ways in which we can better foster emotional resilience, an understanding of which is imperative. To build upon previous work and further our understanding in this area, I hope to test three different climate change education courses that will reveal whether group-based and solution-focused communication can allow for maintenance of both mental health and climate advocacy. The results of this study would allow me to discern how support from others and sense of agency with knowledge of environmental actions can aid our approach to tackling climate change. With our time to stop climate change running short, this is an urgent question which I hope to give insight to.
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Mentor: Rachel Adams