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Maria Ojala

@iaojala.bsky.social
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Professor in Socio-Ecological Resilience, FRONT-program, University of Oulu. PhD and Docent in Psychology, Örebro University. Climate-change worry/anxiety, hope, trust, meaning, coping, climate-change engagement, critical emotional awareness, young people

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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
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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…
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
sciencedirect.com
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…
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
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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…
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
sciencedirect.com
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…
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🌍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
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Christian Palacios Haugestad @cphaugestad.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧵✨ 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...
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<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...
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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...
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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...
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Raphael Ofner @raphael-ofner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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.
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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/
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Maria Ojala @iaojala.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Maria Vamvalis, PhD @mariavamvalis.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨 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...
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