Maria Ojala
@iaojala.bsky.social
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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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…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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🌍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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May 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🌍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
RSVP here: ow.ly/LeTm50VU7WR
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🧵✨ 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...
<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...
doi.org
May 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🧵✨ 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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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...
January 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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...
January 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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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.
But much more than "Thoughts & Prayers" they (and we all) need "Mitigation & Adaption" to address climate change and its most disastrous effects.
Scientists have found that fires across California and other parts of the American West have become faster-moving in recent decades.
California Wildfires Tear Through Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon: Live Updates
Tens of thousands were under mandatory evacuation orders as multiple blazes raged out of control. Gusty winds hindered firefighting efforts and raised fears that flames could reach more populated area...
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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.
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/
emesergroup.wordpress.com/symposium/
December 30, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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/
emesergroup.wordpress.com/symposium/
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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...
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...
link.springer.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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...
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...
link.springer.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00345237231160090
August 6, 2023 at 2:05 PM
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
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00345237231160090
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🚨 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...
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...
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 AM
🚨 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...
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...