Isham Amy, Morgan Gareth, Kemp Andrew Haddon
School of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, Guildford, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 27;14:1205991. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205991. eCollection 2023.
Awareness of climate change can prompt overwhelming emotions that threaten wellbeing such as anger, despair, and anxiety. Neoliberal views of human beings and their mental health strip the individual from their social and material context, driving personal dissatisfaction, social isolation, and ecological destruction. In this piece, we contend that advancements in scholarly research on wellbeing offer valuable insights for addressing the challenges posed by the climate crises while respecting human wellbeing. Such frameworks, which include the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) and the GENIAL model, emphasize the interconnected nature of people, communities, and their environment. In turn, they help to lay the groundwork for the development of 'post-growth' societies focused on supporting outcomes such as human wellbeing, social justice, and environmental regeneration. There are a number of different actions that practitioners and even lay individuals can take to promote positive outcomes and effective responses in the face of the climate crisis. These actions, discussed in the concluding sections of the article, aim to foster wellbeing and impactful engagement with the challenges posed by climate change.
对气候变化的认知可能引发愤怒、绝望和焦虑等威胁幸福感的强烈情绪。新自由主义对人类及其心理健康的观点将个体与其社会和物质背景剥离开来，导致个人不满、社会孤立和生态破坏。在本文中，我们认为，关于幸福感的学术研究进展为应对气候危机带来的挑战同时尊重人类幸福感提供了宝贵的见解。此类框架，包括权力威胁意义框架（PTMF）和GENIAL模型，强调了人、社区及其环境的相互联系本质。反过来，它们有助于为发展专注于支持人类幸福感、社会正义和环境再生等成果的“后增长”社会奠定基础。从业者甚至普通个人可以采取多种不同行动，以在面对气候危机时促进积极成果和有效应对。文章结尾部分讨论的这些行动旨在促进幸福感，并对气候变化带来的挑战进行有影响力的参与。
