An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers

Inman, R. Anthony; Moreira, Paulo; Faria, Sara; Araújo, Marta; Cunha, Diana; Pedras, Susana; Lopes, Joana Correia

doi:10.1080/13504622.2021.1998382

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“…The TTMC conceptualizes behaviour change as a series of events that occur over five discrete stages: pre‐contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. These stages represent temporal and motivational mechanisms that initiate change, which is most often a non‐linear process (Inman et al, 2021).…”

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Film as a pedagogical tool for climate change and mental health nursing education

Abebe,

Bailey,

Radu

2023

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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The relationship between climate change and worsening mental health is of increasing concern globally. Climate change is ubiquitous, yet marginalized populations bear a disproportionate burden of the physical and mental health impacts, while youth are more likely to report mental health concerns related to climate change than older generations. Mental health nurses will inevitably see these impacts play out in their practice, thus it is important to explore innovative tools for teaching about and responding to the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change. This perspective paper presents an educational project that utilized film and structured reflection to engage with the intersecting topics of planetary and mental health. The authors created a documentary film that presents the relationship between mental health and climate change as well as an accompanying reflective toolkit. Both the film and toolkit were integrated into an undergraduate course about the health impacts of climate change. This paper explores the relevance of climate change to mental health nursing education and practice, describes the process of creating and integrating the film and toolkit into a course and advances the position that film is an innovative way to engage individuals and communities (such as student or community groups) with the emotional and psychological concerns that arise in response to complex challenges of climate change. More research is needed to better understand the mental health impacts of climate change and to explore novel approaches to education and advocacy about this topic. We hope that sharing our project and experiences will inspire additional discussion and research related to these emerging issues that are of great relevance to mental health nursing.

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Film as a pedagogical tool for climate change and mental health nursing education

Abebe,

Bailey,

Radu

2023

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…The Transtheoretical model is highly relevant to this study, particularly in understanding the change in the behaviors of individuals in local communities in urban areas, to be more environmentally conscious. The model has also been used in other studies to understand the process through which climate change efforts by experts have encouraged mitigation actions [36,37]. For this study, the Malaysian population is divided into different groups of citizens who fall in different stages of the model.…”

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Citizen Participation and Climate Change within an Urban Community Context: Insights for Policy Development for Bottom-Up Climate Action Engagement

Chitsa

Sivapalan²,

Singh

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Citizen-led mitigation and adaptation are key to climate policy advancement and acceleration, particularly within an urban development context. The top-down approach requires the development of clear action plans for the involvement and engagement of citizens to accelerate bottom-up climate mitigation and adaptation efforts within the urban context. In Malaysia, there are national policy strategies such as the 12th Malaysia Plan, the National Urban Wellbeing Blueprint, the National Climate Change Policy, and the Malaysian New Urban Agenda. However, a successful implementation of climate policies can only be achieved when citizens are adequately socialized to policy impacts. This paper explores citizen perceptions and attitudes toward participation in mitigation and adaptation efforts for climate action within an urban context. Underpinned by the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Transtheoretical Theory, this study explored the approach of citizen participation as a possible tool for assessing climate policy effectiveness for bottom-up climate mitigation and adaptation efforts within an urban context. The study was set within the Malaysian urban context, given the limited empirical evidence in the area. The findings of the study suggest that a bottom-up approach to citizen participation through education, awareness, and inclusive climate policy formulation procedures will result in positive attitudes toward citizen participation.

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“…Pro-environmental behaviours in specific practices like recycling, upgrading to energy-efficient domestic appliances, conserving water, using public transport, and turning off lights [ 10 , 11 ] have been given much attention by both educators and governments. While seemingly small in effect, if persistently practiced by many people over time, they will aggregate to larger effect [ 12 , 13 ] and educational institutions can have a general impact by training individuals to think critically about such specific behaviours, and thus understand their impacts on the planet [ 14 , 15 ]. Although direct education about specific environmental behaviour can sometimes influence students to change, a different approach highly sought by researchers in sustainability is the concept of Transformative Learning (TL) to instead challenge and change underlying frames of references and worldviews of individuals, because this approach has the potential for deep impact on multiple sustained behaviour changes - transformative behaviour changes [ 16 , 17 ].…”

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An exploration of nudging towards transformative environmental behaviour changes prior to a values-crystallization event

Tening,

Harder

2023

Heliyon

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An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Film as a pedagogical tool for climate change and mental health nursing education

Film as a pedagogical tool for climate change and mental health nursing education

Citizen Participation and Climate Change within an Urban Community Context: Insights for Policy Development for Bottom-Up Climate Action Engagement

An exploration of nudging towards transformative environmental behaviour changes prior to a values-crystallization event

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