Summary: The Major goals of this project are promoting the wellbeing of university students, and seeking the potential opportunity to explore the effect of inducing the feeling of Awe with nature in triggering Pro-environmental Behaviour. The Current project proposes to delve into some processes that might associate this powerful emotional experience of Awe, not only with wellbeing, but also with Pro-environmental behaviour, a much-needed behaviour in current society in the face of the ongoing environmental crisis. Although elicited empathy with nature has been linked to Pro-environmental behaviour intentions, the role of dispositional empathy, both with animals and with nature in the elicitation of nature related Awe, is not established, nor is that of potential attentional biases in experiencing nature-awe. These mental processes need to be understood if in the future we are going to use nature-Awe as a means to enhance PEB and produce an impactful behaviour change in environmental sustainability. The current project relies heavily on experimental studies and direct behaviour measurement. University students are our target population for two main reasons: their challenged well-being, and the fact that their generation has the highest environmental concerns, although among Portuguese university students PEB appears to be scarce. Hence this population is of great relevance and presents a large potential to be primed into Pro-environmental actions in their everyday lives. We will be able to assess both Portuguese and Swedish students, respectively at the FCH-UCP campus in Lisbon, Portugal and at the MidSweden University campus in Östersund, Sweden.
Projects
- ENGAGE
- NHNAI project
- Vaccination against COVID-19
- SaveDForest
- Awesome Portal
- Awesome Nature
- Something’s Gotta Give
- TeleCareer: Antecedents and Consequences of Strategic Career Behaviours on Iberian Teleworkers
- Contributo da Neuropsicologia para o estudo da neurofibromatose tipo 1 (NF1)
- UCP4SUCCESS
- U©P2 Mental Health
- Narrativa Cidadãos Ativ@s
- DIS/CONNECT: Individuals’ Digital Disconnection
- Proteus
- Psychological Health and Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Portuguese Schools
- (Des)ajuste de cronotipo del alumnado y la organizacion del tiempo escolar: sus efectos en la salud, el aprendizaje, el uso del tiempo y la satisfaccion -Kairos
- Circadian and sleep disruption and recovery dynamics on a group of military submariners: before, during and after a mission
- Retirement: Survive or Adapt?
- ICOSS – 2
- Days in the Hospital: Evaluation of an Intervention carried out in the Day Hospital of the Psychiatric Service of Vila Franca de Xira Hospital
- EuroSleep study
- Couple Relationships'Quality
- Couple and In-laws
More Information
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CRC-W participating members: Anna Byarto, Augusta Gaspar (PI), Francisco Esteves (co-PI), Joana Carneiro Pinto, Nuno Piçarra, Sandra Oliveira
Status: Ongoing – pilot study started April 2024
Funding: submitted to FCT