Beyond the individual: testing and applying a collective protection motivation model for pro-environmental behaviors
Current Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 20, 2025
Language: Английский
The Role of Collective Positive Prospection in Motivating Social Change: A Scoping Review of Methods and Findings
Journal of Environmental Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 102576 - 102576
Published: March 1, 2025
Language: Английский
“I have been hearing we are the future of tomorrow for so long now. When is tomorrow?” narratives on youth and the future in Nigeria
Uba Donald Dennis,
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Timileyin Fashola,
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Abba Danlami Haruna
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et al.
British Journal of Social Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
64(2)
Published: April 1, 2025
Nigeria
has
one
of
the
largest
youth
populations
in
world.
Across
three
rounds
a
total
17
focus
group
discussions
and
around
Abuja
(N
=
115),
we
discussed
sociopolitical
situation
before
after
national
elections
2023.
Participants
spoke
need
for
change,
their
future-thinking,
they
positioned
as
key
drivers
change.
Through
narrative
analysis,
explore
this
positioning,
well
exclusion
from
decision-making
spaces.
Participants-young
older-speak
blocking
imagined
futures
nation.
We
divided
results
into
two
main
narratives:
narratives
despair
hope.
Agency
power
are
differently
within
these-as
owned
by
elites
first
set
narratives,
people
(particularly
youth)
latter.
The
former
is
more
prominent
emphasized
narrative,
speaking
to
challenging
Nigeria.
make
use
concepts
hope,
agency,
world-making
discuss
data,
keeping
mind
restrictive
context
hindrances
place.
Combined,
allows
exploring
impact
future
stories
on
present,
places
agency
(and
lack
thereof)
front
centre.
Language: Английский
Positivity and collective climate action
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
64, P. 101527 - 101527
Published: May 2, 2025
Language: Английский
From imagination to activism: Cognitive alternatives motivate commitment to activism through identification with social movements and collective efficacy
British Journal of Social Psychology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
64(1)
Published: Nov. 15, 2024
Abstract
Having
a
vision
and
being
able
to
imagine
socially
ecologically
just
alternatives
can
motivate
people
for
societal
transformation.
However,
which
psychological
processes
drive
this
link
between
the
mental
accessibility
of
collective
action?
We
hypothesized
that
efficacy
beliefs
politicized
identification
form
two
pathways
mediating
effects
cognitive
on
high‐cost
activist
behaviour.
Two
studies
pooled
analysis
tested
these
hypotheses
longitudinally.
Data
were
collected
in
field
settings:
climate
camp
an
online
conference
socio‐ecological
visions.
In
line
with
our
assumptions,
across
three
four
analysed
timeframes,
latent
change
score
modelling
showed
changes
predicted
social
movement
identification,
turn,
action
intentions.
found
clear
evidence
short
term
mixed
long
term.
Additional
analyses
including
participative
no
relevant
effects.
concluded
ability
envision
may
foster
sense
agency
as
members
movements.
These
linking
imagination
activism
are
less
about
individual
than
realizing
possibilities
identifying
groups
enacting
it.
Language: Английский