Promoting children’s psychological agency through balanced engagement with climate
Promoting children’s psychological agency is key to building climate resilience. Using a socio-ecological approach, this Comment advocates for integrated physical and digital climate learning, engaging families, educators, and communities to empower children and provide emotional support. This Comment advocates promoting children’s psychological agency to building climate resilience. This approach includes physical and digital climate learning, engaging families, educators, and communities to empower children and provide emotional support.
Authors
- Nidhi Nagabhatla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-2048)
- Kariuki Weru (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0734-8998)
- R. J. Oakes
- Sanae Okamoto
Institutions
- United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (BE)
- Maastricht School of Management (NL)
- United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (NL)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- United Nations University (DE)
- Institute for Environment and Human Security (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Psychology
- Published
- 2025-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00367-7
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31
Funders
- Strong