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Desafíos de medición para la investigación de la obesidad infantil en y entre América Latina y Estados Unidos. [PDF]

Obes Rev, 2021
Resumen La obesidad infantil es un grave problema de salud pública en Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos y para luchar contra ella se precisan instrumentos de medición válidos y fiables y que tengan en cuenta los aspectos culturales. Para avanzar en este campo sería útil mejorar las mediciones en los distintos grupos de edades y países del continente ...
Berrigan D, Arteaga SS, Colón-Ramos U, Rosas LG, Monge-Rojas R, O'Connor TM, Pérez-Escamilla R, Roberts EFS, Sanchez B, Téllez-Rojo MM, Vorkoper S, Cross Borders Working Group.   +11 more
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Civic engagement among adolescents: Spanish adaptation and validation of the civic engagement scale. [PDF]

Am J Community Psychol
Abstract The aim of this research was to adapt and validate the Civic Engagement Scale (CES) developed by Doolittle & Faul for the Spanish adolescent population while providing empirical support for its psychometric properties. After administering the instruments to 965 adolescents from high schools, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to ...
Ayllón-Salas P, Arco-Tirado JL, Fernández-Martín FD.   +2 more
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Impacts of ecosystem service message framing and dynamic social norms on public support for tropical forest restoration. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
The study: Recorded responses of > 1000 UK adults towards different marketing strategies. Tested 6 treatments ‐ 3 message framing strategies in the presence and absence of a dynamic social norm nudge. Tested how respondents' psychological traits influence advert effectiveness.
Simons DL, Bradbury RB, Evans KL.
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Use of theories of human action in recent conservation research. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Social sciences are increasingly recognized as useful for reorienting human action toward environmental conservation. Fully realizing the social sciences’ potential requires applying social science methods to conservation challenges and drawing from and building on human action theories from across the social sciences to better understand how ...
Eyster HN, Gould RK, Chan KMA, Satterfield T.   +3 more
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Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The role of nature documentaries in shaping public attitudes and behavior toward conservation and wildlife issues is unclear. We analyzed the emotional content of over 2 million tweets related to Our Planet, a major nature documentary released on Netflix, with dictionary and rule‐based automatic sentiment analysis.
Alberto Acerbi, John Burns, Unal Cabuk, Jakub Kryczka, Bethany Trapp, John Joseph Valletta, Alex Mesoudi   +6 more
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Actitudes y comportamientos ambientales en estudiantes universitarios

, 2023
El libro es una adaptación de una investigación presentada a la Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica. El objetivo fue determinar la relación entre las actitudes y comportamientos ambientales en estudiantes de la mencionada institución. La población fue de 3289 estudiantes, con un muestreo probabilístico de 357.
Noemi Mencia-Sanchez, Roger Rivera-Casavilca, Manuel Castrejon-Valdez, Javier Vargas-Martinez, Karen Alcos-Flores   +4 more
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Evaluating the influence of nature connection and values on conservation attitudes at a tropical deforestation frontier

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Inner phenomena, such as personal motivations for pursuing sustainability, may be critical levers for improving conservation outcomes. Most conservation research and policies, however, focus on external phenomena (e.g., ecological change or economic processes). We explored the factors shaping 9 conservation attitudes toward forest and wildlife
Katarzyna M. Mikołajczak, Jos Barlow, Alexander C. Lees, Christopher D. Ives, Micha Strack, Oriana Trindade de Almeida, Agnis C. Souza, Frazer Sinclair, Luke Parry   +8 more
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Actitudes ambientales en jóvenes del nivel medio superior

South Florida Journal of Development, 2022
A medida que avanzamos la población se encuentra bajo el llamado “dilema ambiental (A la Torres, Zavala & Alvarado, 2014) que ocasiona la pérdida de suelos, de recursos hídricos, contaminación de residuos sólidos peligrosos y no peligrosos, contaminación visual, cambio climático, deforestación y pérdida de la biodiversidad, afectando todos los ...
Catalina Vargas Ramos, María Guadalupe Martínez Treviño   +1 more
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Drivers of support for citizen science across state wildlife management agencies in the United States

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Citizen science (CS) is gaining recognition as a valuable approach to meet data needs for environmental projects while fostering collaboration between scientists and members of the public. Despite increasing implementation of CS by natural resource entities, organizations’ motivations for engaging in CS remain poorly understood.
Amanda N. Van Buskirk, Bertram Bynum Boley, Charlie H. Killmaster, Kristina L. Johannsen, Gino J. D'Angelo   +4 more
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Un estudio empírico sobre las actitudes ambientales [PDF]

International Journal of Social Psychology: Revista de Psicología Social, 1991
En esta investigación se estudia la validez de una versión castellana de la escala «Environmental Concern Scale» (ECS) llevada a cabo con 716 estudiantes. Las puntuaciones obtenidas por los sujetos proambientalistas y no proambientalistas resultan significativamente diferentes.
Juan Ignacio Aragonés, María Amérigo
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