Maria Ojala

Understanding late adolescents’ moral responsibility for climate change: The role of social-ecological factors, worry, and distancing Addressing climate change requires people in the Global North to avoid high-impact behaviors like car use and air travel. Late adolescents, whose enga…

New article about how parental influence and nature connectedness relate to young people's responsibility for climate change and what role climate-change worry plays in these relationships! Second study to lead author Amanda Rikner Martinsson's PhD-thesis!🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding late adolescents’ moral responsibility for climate change: The role of social-ecological factors, worry, and distancing Addressing climate change requires people in the Global North to avoid high-impact behaviors like car use and air travel. Late adolescents, whose enga…

New article about how parental influence and nature connectedness relate to young people's responsibility for climate change and what role climate-change worry plays in these relationships! Second study to lead author Amanda Rikner Martinsson's PhD-thesis!🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From Distress to Action? – A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Climate Change Distress, Pro-Environmental Behavior, and Coping Strategies among Finnish Adolescents. Climate change is a major threat requiring active engagement from young people. However, adolescents can experience distress when confronting the prob…

New article together with Salla Veijonaho, lead author, and colleagues! This longitudinal study shows the importance of youth's meaning-focused coping for turning climate distress into climate engagement and for hindering these actions to lead to more distress! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From Distress to Action? – A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Climate Change Distress, Pro-Environmental Behavior, and Coping Strategies among Finnish Adolescents. Climate change is a major threat requiring active engagement from young people. However, adolescents can experience distress when confronting the prob…

New article together with Salla Veijonaho, lead author, and colleagues! This longitudinal study shows the importance of youth's meaning-focused coping for turning climate distress into climate engagement and for hindering these actions to lead to more distress! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A person holds a mound of dirt, topped with a lightbulb that contains a leaf.

🌍Just Announced: Join us on June 3 for the next installment of our APA Interdivisional Webinar Series on Climate Justice and Psychology! Featured speaker Amanda Carrico will discuss climate change, migration, and well-being.

RSVP here: ow.ly/LeTm50VU7WR

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Emotional responses to anthropogenic climate change have attracted significant attention. People negotiate emotions through culturally available frameworks. This study, based on 18 focus group discus...

🧵✨ Excited to share insights from my recently published paper, “You can’t live in fear all the time”: Affective Dilemmas in Youth’s Discussions on Climate Change in Norway, in the British Journal of Social Psychology! Here’s a breakdown of our findings: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

Do you conduct interdisciplinary sustainability research? Submit an abstract to “The 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis”, June 4-6, 2025, in beautiful Oulu, Finland. Deadline February 15. app.eventos.fi/ais-conferen...

Do you conduct interdisciplinary sustainability research? Submit an abstract to “The 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis”, June 4-6, 2025, in beautiful Oulu, Finland. Deadline February 15. app.eventos.fi/ais-conferen...

These days, my thoughts are with all the people in California who are in grave danger because of massive wildfires!

But much more than "Thoughts & Prayers" they (and we all) need "Mitigation & Adaption" to address climate change and its most disastrous effects.

Interested in emotional perspectives on education for a sustainable future? Submit a presentation to this symposium on April 10-11! I am glad to have been invited as keynote speaker alongside Prof. Michalinos Zembylas who I have referred to a lot in my research!
emesergroup.wordpress.com/symposium/

Patterns of climate-change coping among late adolescents: Differences in emotions concerning the future, moral responsibility, and climate-change engagement - Climatic Change Young people both are and will be greatly affected by climate change, an insight which can trigger a range of stressful emotions concerning the future. How young people cope with climate change as a s...

Article about how young people cope with climate change! We identified three patterns of coping, of which combining meaning-focused coping with problem-focused coping seems to be the most constructive. First article to Amanda Rikner Martinsson’s doctoral thesis! 😊
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Patterns of climate-change coping among late adolescents: Differences in emotions concerning the future, moral responsibility, and climate-change engagement - Climatic Change Young people both are and will be greatly affected by climate change, an insight which can trigger a range of stressful emotions concerning the future. How young people cope with climate change as a s...

Article about how young people cope with climate change! We identified three patterns of coping, of which combining meaning-focused coping with problem-focused coping seems to be the most constructive. First article to Amanda Rikner Martinsson’s doctoral thesis! 😊
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am grateful to the youth climate activists who contributed to this research. “We’re fighting for our lives”: Centering affective, collective and systemic approaches to climate justice education as a youth mental health imperative"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00345237231160090

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍

Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...

Thank you for creating this! Can you please add me to the list, thanks!