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Late adolescents' moral responsibility concerning climate change: what role does moral emotions, parental influence, and distancing play?
Örebro University, School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences.ORCID iD: 0009-0007-0962-146X
Örebro University, School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0097-4035
Örebro University, School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6613-5974
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

People in the Global North need to adopt high-impact behaviors (such as refraining from using a car or avoiding air travel). Given that numerous late adolescents may still reside with their parent/-s, assessing the personal adoption of high-impact climate behaviors could be challenging, as these decisions are often influenced by their parent/-s. Therefore, it might be more relevant to explore factors that can predict how morally responsible late adolescents feel, as moral obligation can be closely related to behavior. Climate-change worry, nature connectedness, parents´ social norms, and being female, have shown positive associations to climate-friendly engagement in previous research, whereas de-emphasizing coping has revealed a negative relationship. A questionnaire study was conducted with 596 Swedish senior high school students (age 16-20) in 2023, and data analyzed through hierarchical regression. Preliminary results reveal that after controlling for gender in step 1, the explained variance in moral responsibility increased from 12 % to 56 % when climate-change worry, nature connectedness, parents´ norms and de-emphasizing coping were entered into the model in step 2. The largest unique effect on moral responsibility was attributed to climate-change worry. The results suggest that more than half of the variability in late adolescents´ moral responsibility can be explained by the proposed predictors. Limitations and implications are discussed. 

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2024.
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Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-123935OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-123935DiVA, id: diva2:2001209
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27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, June 16-20, 2024
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2021-00592Available from: 2025-09-25 Created: 2025-09-25 Last updated: 2025-09-26Bibliographically approved

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