A5015164395- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Family Support in Illness
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Utrecht University
2021-2025
University of Amsterdam
2024
Metropolitan University
2024
Young people can be agents of sustainable change. To this end, environmental education programs aim to promote their knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. We synthesized five decades research into the effectiveness for children adolescents. searched PsycINFO, ERIC, Scopus identified 169 studies (512 effect sizes; 176,007 participants) conducted in 43 countries, across 6 continents. Environmental significantly improved knowledge (g = 0.953), attitudes 0.384), intentions 0.256),...
Young people are disproportionally impacted by heatwaves, floods, droughts, and other impacts of climate change. They also have unique potential to catalyze the transformative sustainable change that world needs now. How can this be leveraged? In perspective, we present sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis understand harness young peoples', especially adolescents', for engagement. The posits adolescents will internally motivated engage in behavior when they construe such as a means...
Background Climate anxiety is increasingly prevalent among adolescents worldwide. Are climate‐anxious prone to engage in pro‐environmental behavior? Or might the association between climate and be curvilinear, such that high levels of become ‘paralyzing’? And do these associations depend on whether believe that, with effort, worst impacts change can still prevented? Methods We addressed questions three studies (two preregistered; combined N = 2,211), conducted across two countries. used...
Digital twins of the Earth are digital representations system, spanning scales and domains. Their purpose is to monitor, forecast assess system consequences human interventions on system. Providing users with capability interact interrogate decision support systems for addressing environmental challenges. By informing humans their impact aspire promote new pathways moving forward. answering causal queries through intervention analysis, they can enhance evidence-based policy making. Existing...
Communicating with adolescents about climate change can be challenging if we want to safeguard their emotional well-being. Here, evaluate the impact of communication that is informed by self-determination theory (SDT). We conducted two experiments samples ethnically diverse from United States examine adolescents’ emotions when reading needs-aligned, needs-misaligned, and needs-neutral (control) change. Adolescents who read needs-aligned reported less anxiety compared needs-misaligned (Study...
This study examined the relationship between family wealth and school dropout among vocational education students (n = 1,231; mean age=17.81). It investigated whether (1) affluence adolescents' own perceptions experiences of their (i.e., perceived wealth, financial scarcity) predict dropout, (2) civic attitudes system justification, institutional trust) explain association (3) trust in teachers buffers against risk with lower attitudes. Multivariate models revealed that scarcity predicted...
The sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be motivated to act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy and peer status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed the Sustainability Motive-Alignment Scale (SMAS), a brief self-report scale of individual differences in motive-alignment. In four studies across two relatively individualistic (U.S., Netherlands) collectivistic countries (China, Colombia), SMAS was...
The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on youth. This study examined factors associated with youth’s attitudes towards their government’s response to the pandemic and blaming of individuals from certain risk groups, ethnic backgrounds, countries or regions. In sample 5,682 young adults ( M age = 22) 14 countries, lower perceived burden due COVID-19, more collectivistic less individualistic values, empathy were positive government groups. Youth’s social identification others in mediated...
De klimaatcrisis is één van de grootste uitdagingen onze tijd. Wetenschappers zijn het er over eens dat klimaat aarde op dit moment sneller verandert dan ooit, voor een groot deel als gevolg acties mensen. Dit heeft belangrijke gevolgen ons allemaal, vooral jongeren, die impact in hun toekomst nog sterker zullen ervaren. Met jongeren bedoelen wij mensen tussen 12 en 28 jaar. Hoe beleven zij om te groeien tijd klimaatcrisis? Wat zien valkuilen kansen? doet met welzijn toekomstperspectief? En...
Abstract Today's youth are growing up in a world threatened by climate change. Facing an uncertain future, young people—and especially adolescents—tend to be concerned about change, even more so than other age groups. How can socializing agents (e.g., educators, policymakers, clinicians) support and engage adolescents as they come of warming world? In this article, we review studies on change development from the perspective self‐determination theory (SDT). SDT provides framework for...
The world is becoming less livable due to climate change and the loss of nature. What can be done stop this environmental crisis? would empower young people help protect environment? Schools clubs sometimes offer education programs—lessons or activities understand environment its vulnerabilities, what it. Do these programs work? To answer question, we conducted a big summary 169 studies, which included more than 176,000 from around world. results provide good news: generally helps know...
NOTE: After peer review, the manuscript was revised, resubmitted, and published. The publication is available open access at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888691.2023.2260748 . Please refer to published article. sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be internally motivated act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed Sustainability...
Background: Climate anxiety is increasingly prevalent among adolescents worldwide. Are climate-anxious prone to engage in pro-environmental behavior? Or might the association between climate and be curvilinear, such that high levels of are “paralyzing”? And do these associations depend on whether believe that, with effort, worst impacts change can still avoided? Methods: We addressed questions three studies (two pre-registered; combined N = 2,211), conducted across two countries. used...