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Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador
Climate change involves multiple emotional expressions associated with specific labels, notably: ‘concern,’ ‘guilt,’ or ‘scepticism.’ However, there are other types of emotions that have been less analysed, such as ‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger’ and ‘confusion’ that are of equal importance for predicting...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644240 |
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author | Iniguez-Gallardo, Verónica Lenti Boero, Daniela Tzanopoulos, Joseph |
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description | Climate change involves multiple emotional expressions associated with specific labels, notably: ‘concern,’ ‘guilt,’ or ‘scepticism.’ However, there are other types of emotions that have been less analysed, such as ‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger’ and ‘confusion’ that are of equal importance for predicting behavioural changes toward this climatic issue. Likewise, few studies in this research field rely on qualitative data to understand and identify the causative agents for the emotional arousal. This research explores a range of emotions, mixing those that have been widely studied and those that have been hardly analysed. It also looks at the demographic parameters associated with such emotions using a population sample from southern Ecuador. The study analyses quantitative and qualitative data gathered through structured-questionnaires whereby participants were given agency to select and define how they themselves sense emotionally climate change. The results indicate that two of the five participants’ most selected emotions are shared with other nations (‘concern,’ ‘guilt’), while the other three have been less reported and studied in the climate change field (‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger,’ and ‘confusion’). These emotions were found to be aroused by different reasons associated with specific demographic variables. The findings reveal the role of the cultural and local environment in the emotional arousal and its relevance for designing more effective climate communication campaigns. |
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spelling | pubmed-85036732021-10-12 Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador Iniguez-Gallardo, Verónica Lenti Boero, Daniela Tzanopoulos, Joseph Front Psychol Psychology Climate change involves multiple emotional expressions associated with specific labels, notably: ‘concern,’ ‘guilt,’ or ‘scepticism.’ However, there are other types of emotions that have been less analysed, such as ‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger’ and ‘confusion’ that are of equal importance for predicting behavioural changes toward this climatic issue. Likewise, few studies in this research field rely on qualitative data to understand and identify the causative agents for the emotional arousal. This research explores a range of emotions, mixing those that have been widely studied and those that have been hardly analysed. It also looks at the demographic parameters associated with such emotions using a population sample from southern Ecuador. The study analyses quantitative and qualitative data gathered through structured-questionnaires whereby participants were given agency to select and define how they themselves sense emotionally climate change. The results indicate that two of the five participants’ most selected emotions are shared with other nations (‘concern,’ ‘guilt’), while the other three have been less reported and studied in the climate change field (‘powerlessness,’ ‘anger,’ and ‘confusion’). These emotions were found to be aroused by different reasons associated with specific demographic variables. The findings reveal the role of the cultural and local environment in the emotional arousal and its relevance for designing more effective climate communication campaigns. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8503673/ /pubmed/34646186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644240 Text en Copyright © 2021 Iniguez-Gallardo, Lenti Boero and Tzanopoulos. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Iniguez-Gallardo, Verónica Lenti Boero, Daniela Tzanopoulos, Joseph Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title | Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title_full | Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title_fullStr | Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title_full_unstemmed | Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title_short | Climate Change and Emotions: Analysis of People’s Emotional States in Southern Ecuador |
title_sort | climate change and emotions: analysis of people’s emotional states in southern ecuador |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644240 |
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