Cunha Jennifer, Martins Juliana, Núñez José Carlos, Vallejo Guillermo, Rosário Pedro
Psychology Research Center, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2025 May 5;16:1532409. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1532409. eCollection 2025.
In a rapidly evolving world, human agency serves as a driving force to shape a more sustainable future. The climate crisis is an example of how individuals must be proactive and take action to mitigate this environmental problem through three modes of agency advocated by Bandura: individual, proxy, and collective. This is even more relevant for adolescents, who will most suffer climate change consequences. However, instruments assessing adolescents' agency modes toward climate change are still lacking. To address this gap, we present the development and validation of three theoretically based scales for assessing each mode of adolescents' agency toward climate change (AGENTC2). The AGENTC2-Scales were developed based on a literature search, expert review, and consultation with a panel of adolescents. The AGENTC2-Scales were then empirically tested with 1,114 adolescents, and their psychometric properties were assessed, providing evidence of validity (i.e., content, structural, and convergent), measurement invariance (sex and school grade), internal consistency, and test-retest reliability. Data showed that the AGENTC2-Scales can be used to measure each mode of agency toward climate change and their properties validly and reliably. Further research is needed to extend the validation of the scales in other countries.
在一个快速发展的世界中，人类能动性是塑造更可持续未来的驱动力。气候危机就是一个例子，说明个人必须积极主动，通过班杜拉倡导的三种能动性模式：个人、代理和集体，采取行动来缓解这一环境问题。这对青少年来说更为重要，因为他们将是气候变化后果的最大受害者。然而，目前仍缺乏评估青少年应对气候变化的能动性模式的工具。为了填补这一空白，我们展示了三种基于理论的量表的开发与验证，这些量表用于评估青少年应对气候变化的每种能动性模式（AGENTC2）。AGENTC2量表是在文献检索、专家评审以及与一组青少年进行磋商的基础上开发的。然后，对1114名青少年进行了AGENTC2量表的实证测试，并评估了其心理测量特性，提供了效度（即内容效度、结构效度和聚合效度）、测量不变性（性别和年级）、内部一致性以及重测信度的证据。数据表明，AGENTC2量表可用于有效且可靠地测量应对气候变化的每种能动性模式及其特性。还需要进一步的研究来扩展该量表在其他国家的验证。
