Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Rumination, and Negative Climate Emotions: A Mediation Analysis

Posters

Keyword: Climate Change

Abstract: What predicts climate change action? Rumination, a maladaptive emotional regulation strategy, can exacerbate negative emotions and encourage proactive behaviors. Structural equation modeling of Kovacs et al. (2023)’s dataset containing 1040 United States Prolific participants shows rumination partially mediates negative emotions' capacity to predict pro-environmental behavior.

• Jordan Dudley (Presenting Author)
• Alejandra Cifuentes (Author)
• Luke Reyes (Author)
• Jin Qian (Author)
• Kimberly Barchard (Author)