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Previous issue date: 2011-04-18 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / In recent years, much has been discussed about global climate changes (GCCs), popularly
known as global warming. The scientific evidences point out to the influence of human
actions for its drastic intensification. Therefore, studies of the psychological aspects
involved become relevant. This study aimed at the investigation of the views of
adolescents concerning GCCs, and the possible relations between those views and their
pro-ecological commitment. Such commitment is measured by willingness for engagement
in pro-environmental behaviors; environmentalism attitudes, like ecocentric and
anthropocentric; consideration of future consequences; and ecological worldviews.
Participants were 348 adolescents who answered a questionnaire containing questions
about socio-demographic data, open questions about the practice of environmental care,
and about GCCs, and the scales of Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Environmentalism, the
Consideration of Future Consequences and the Ecological Worldviews assessment scale.
From the inter-relationships between variables, procedures carried out by means of
descriptive and correlacional statistics, it was observed that 55% of teenagers said that they
did not engage in actions of environmental care, which was associated with apathyanthropocentric,
immediatism, and individualism. The consideration of future
consequences joined the practice of environmental care, corroborating evidence from the
literature. It was evident that views concerning GCCs were superficial; adolescents
perceive it as a generic environmental problem, and are confused with other problems such
as pollution. This study found no association between views about GCCs and the indicators
of pro-ecological commitment, perhaps due to the conceptual confusion about the subject.
However, the lack of environmental care actions and other indicators of non-commitment
(apathy-anthropocentric, individualism and immediatism) were associated with
conceptually poor or incomplete responses (with no indication of cause, consequence or
responsibility for the problem), demonstrating diminished knowledge and the failure to
consider these issues / Nos ?ltimos anos, muito tem se falado a respeito das mudan?as clim?ticas globais (MCGs),
popularmente conhecidas como aquecimento global. As evid?ncias cient?ficas ressaltam a
influ?ncia das a??es humanas para sua dr?stica intensifica??o. Diante disto, estudos de
aspectos psicol?gicos relacionados ? tem?tica ganham relev?ncia. Esta pesquisa teve como
objetivo investigar o posicionamento de adolescentes diante das MCGs, e as poss?veis
rela??es deste com o seu compromisso pr?-ecol?gico. Tal compromisso tem como
indicadores, nesta investiga??o: o cuidado ambiental auto-relatado, ambientalismos
ecoc?ntrico e antropoc?ntrico, a considera??o de conseq??ncias futuras, e as vis?es
ecol?gicas de mundo. Participaram do estudo 348 adolescentes, que responderam a um
question?rio, contendo quest?es sobre dados s?cio-demogr?ficos, quest?es abertas sobre a
pr?tica de cuidado ambiental, e sobre MCGs, e as escalas de Ambientalismo Ecoc?ntrico e
Antropoc?ntrico, de Considera??o de Conseq??ncias Futuras e de avalia??o das Vis?es
Ecol?gicas de Mundo. A partir das inter-rela??es entre vari?veis, feitas por meio de
procedimentos estat?sticos descritivos e correlacionais, observou-se que 55% dos
adolescentes afirmaram n?o praticar a??es de cuidado ambiental, o que se associou ?
apatia-antropoc?ntrica, ao imediatismo, e ao individualismo. J? a considera??o de futuro se
associou ?s pr?ticas de cuidado ambiental, corroborando evid?ncias da literatura.
Evidenciou-se que o posicionamento diante das MCGs ? superficial; os adolescentes as
percebem como um problema ambiental gen?rico, e as confundem com outros problemas,
como a polui??o. Este estudo n?o encontrou associa??o entre o posicionamento diante das
MCGs e indicadores de compromisso pr?-ecol?gico, talvez devido ? confus?o conceitual a
respeito do tema. Todavia, a aus?ncia de pr?tica de cuidado e os demais indicadores de
n?o-compromisso (apatia-antropoc?ntrica, individualismo e imediatismo) se associaram ?s
respostas mais conceitualmente pobres, ou incompletas (sem indica??o de causa,
conseq??ncia ou de respons?vel pelo problema), evidenciando, al?m do conhecimento
emba?ado, a n?o considera??o destas quest?es
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/17481 |
| Date | 18 April 2011 |
| Creators | Barros, Hellen Chrystianne Lucio |
| Contributors | CPF:66902991804, http://lattes.cnpq.br/5503576309484010, Sarriera, Jorge Castell?, CPF:33934665004, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783071U4, Falc?o, Jorge Tarcisio da Rocha, CPF:19653930478, http://lattes.cnpq.br/9066230660650393, Pinheiro, Jos? de Queiroz |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Psicologia, UFRN, BR, Psicologia, Sociedade e Qualidade de Vida |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRN, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, instacron:UFRN |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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