Amanda Rikner Martinsson
Amanda Rikner Martinsson Position: Doctoral Student School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: YW1hbmRhLnJpa25lci1tYXJ0aW5zc29uO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 301035
Room: L2616
About Amanda Rikner Martinsson
About Amanda:
Amanda Rikner Martinsson is employed at Örebro University as a doctoral student in psychology.
Her overall dissertation focus is on climate-change worry among young people and associations to environmentally friendly engagement, coping strategies, moral aspects, and learning processes.
Research:
The purpose of Amanda's thesis is to, through a quantitative longitudinal survey and cross-sectional data with senior high school students (16-19 years), investigate how young people's climate-change worry relates to environmentally friendly engagement, coping strategies, moral responsibility, relationship with nature, and views of the future. Amanda and her colleagues will also focus on possible factors that can turn climate-change worry into a positive force for learning (protective and transformative factors). In addition, one part of the thesis intends to investigate the impact of parents on young people's climate-change worry and environmental commitment, seen from the young people's perspective.
Amanda is involved in the following current research projects:
What role does climate change worry play in young people’s life and learning processes? A longitudinal study about protective and transformational factors and implications for climate change education. Grant from the Swedish Research Council VR. Main applicant/ principal investigator: Maria Ojala. 5 954 500 SEK. 2022 (Aug)-2026
To trust or not to trust? Youth’s attitudes, emotions, and trust in climate change science. Grant from the Swedish Research Council Forte. Main applicant/ principal investigator: Maria Ojala. 3 945 021 SEK. Co-applicant Karin Gustafsson. 2022-2025
Teaching:
Amanda teaches at the psychologist program as well as freestanding courses in psychology, in the areas of social psychology and psychology and sustainable development
Research projects
Active projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Rikner Martinsson, A. & Ojala, M. (2024). Patterns of climate-change coping among late adolescents: Differences in emotions concerning the future, moral responsibility, and climate-change engagement. Climatic Change, 177 (8). [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Ojala, M. & Rikner Martinsson, A. (2024). Climate change. In: Encyclopedia of Adolescence (pp. 25-32). . Academic Press. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Rikner Martinsson, A. , Glatz, T. & Ojala, M. (2025). Late adolescents' sense of moral responsibility for climate change: the roles of nature connectedness, parental norms, climate-change worry, distancing, and gender. In: ICEP 2025 Final Programme & Abstract Book. Paper presented at International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP 2025), Vilnius, Lithuania, June 15-18, 2025. (pp. 296-297). [BibTeX]
- Rikner Martinsson, A. , Glatz, T. & Ojala, M. (2024). Late adolescents' moral responsibility concerning climate change: what role does moral emotions, parental influence, and distancing play?. Paper presented at 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, June 16-20, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Rikner Martinsson, A. & Ojala, M. (2023). Patterns of climate-change coping among emerging adults: Differences in climate-friendly engagement, future views, and moral aspects. Paper presented at ICEP 2023 International Conference on Environmental Psychology, Aarhus, Denmark, June 20-23, 2023. [BibTeX]
Reports
- Ojala, M. & Rikner, A. (2010). Att hantera det ambivalenta: unga vuxnas attityder och beteende gällande energisparande i hemmet. Örebro: Örebro universitet (Centrum för urbana och regionala studiers skriftserie 66). [BibTeX]