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| DOI | 10.1080/14742837.2024.2345177 |
| 'Courage without the certainty of a happy ending': the emotion regulation of environmental activists | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 1474-2837 |
| EISSN | 1474-2829 |
| 英文摘要 | Climate change and environmental degradation are the most serious and fundamental problems of our time and focal points for many activist groups and organizations. In this paper, we adopt a psychological perspective to explore the emotions and emotion regulation of environmental activists. We know from the literature that facing the reality of the climate crisis, and the risks involved, often means having to deal with powerful emotions such as fear and anxiety. In addition, activists in general typically deal with personal, cultural as well as structural challenges that often lead to dropout or burnout. Although we know quite a lot about the ways in which emotions mobilize and energize activism, we know less about the ways in which environmental activists regulate their emotions to improve their wellbeing for sustained activism. In the present study, we interviewed a broad international sample of 30 activists from Extinction Rebellion and similar organizations sharing the principles of regenerative culture encouraging emotion regulation among members. The informants experienced a wide range of negative, but also positive, emotions in relation to the experience of 'living in climate truth' as well as their everyday activism. Their emotion regulation strategies could be grouped into two themes: 'Taking action to heal' and 'healing to sustain action'. Both themes reflected the ability to remain emotionally flexible through questioning, and not being attached to the outcomes of activism. This implied the down-regulation and transforming of negative emotions as well as the cultivating and tempering of positive emotions. |
| 英文关键词 | Emotions; emotion regulation; environmental activism; Extinction Rebellion |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Government & Law ; Sociology |
| WOS类目 | Political Science ; Sociology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001206779200001 |
| 来源期刊 | SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/298098 |
| 作者单位 | Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Leeds |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . 'Courage without the certainty of a happy ending': the emotion regulation of environmental activists[J],2024. |
| APA | (2024).'Courage without the certainty of a happy ending': the emotion regulation of environmental activists.SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. |
| MLA | "'Courage without the certainty of a happy ending': the emotion regulation of environmental activists".SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES (2024). |
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