Maria Amerigo

• PhD
• Professor at University of Castilla-La Mancha

Previous studies show that emotions play an important role in raising awareness and motivating people to act to mitigate climate change risks. The aim of this research is to test the extent to which three different sustainability news (focused on techno-optimism, collapse and collaboration, respectively) generated differences among young people in...

Based on an integrative intention-impact approach, this paper examined the gaps between the intention to behave environmentally and the impact of behaviour using ecological footprint indicators. A latent class cluster analysis (LCCA) was used, identifying seven different segments among which divergences of varying magnitude were detected between in...

Previous studies show that emotions play an important role in raising awareness and motivating people to act to mitigate climate change risks. However, no previous research has been found addressing this issue among the younger population. Therefore, the aim is to test the extent to which different sustainability news related to five areas (activis...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of "climate action", "sustainable cities and communities" or "responsible production and consumption" are directly linked to environmental sustainability. In this context, it is timely to design educational interventions at university level that promote pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. The aim of...

El marketing experiencial podría considerarse una estrategia orientada a la creación de un vínculo significativo con los consumidores mediante vivencias positivas experimentadas con el producto o marca en cuestión. Centrando la atención en las dimensiones de la experiencia en el canal online, son numerosas las propuestas previas, destacando las sig...

El cambio de comportamiento es un aspecto clave para mitigar los riesgos del cambio climático. Sin embargo, hay brechas significativas entre variables ambientales actitudinales y el comportamiento proambiental. Diversos autores argumentan que el enfoque de intención del comportamiento proambiental ha sido ampliamente tratado por las Ciencias Social...

In the marketing literature, there is less research that has analysed the role of flow and emotions in the offline consumer experience than in the online experience. Thus, this paper analyses how flow and emotions (interest, joy, surprise and negative affect) impact satisfaction, positive recommendation and repurchase, assessing whether there are d...

Previous empirical evidence suggests that people's attitudes do not always correspond to their behaviour. This paper examines whether there is a gap between the intention to behave in a pro-environmental way and the actual personal impact on the consumption of environmental resources. For this purpose, an online survey was administered to 800 Spani...

The Tagus River deterioration due to water pollution and the Tagus-Segura water transfer, as well as the complaints of the affected populations motivate the present research. This exploratory study aims to characterize the population of three riverside municipalities (Aranjuez, Talavera de la Reina and Toledo) in relation to variables related to pe...

Previous studies conclude that behavioural change is a key aspect to mitigate the risks of climate change. However, there is a significant gap between environmental attitudinal variables (i.e., knowledge, concern, values, or intentions) and pro-environmental behaviour of the population (Kennedy et al., 2009; Klöckner, 2013). Furthermore, Geiger et...

Partiendo de la revisión de la literatura, en este trabajo se plantea un modelo empírico orientado a explorar el efecto que tienen sobre la satisfacción, la recomendación positiva y la recompra en el ámbito online dos tipos de variables: (1) aquellas relacionadas con las emociones (interés, alegría, sorpresa y afecto negativo) y el flow que han sid...

The evolution of an epidemic is conditioned by the health protection behaviors adopted by the population, which depends, in part, on their perception of the risk of contracting the disease. This study on the perception of the risk of COVID-19 infection in a sample of the Spanish population (N = 374) reveals that significant predictors of one’s perc...

The main objective of this research is to design an instrument to evaluate public attitudes towards several protection measures against possible urban flooding, concretely when Duero River passes through the city of Zamora (Spain). The study took place in three differentiated phases. In a first one, using the focus group technique, three groups of...

The evolution of an epidemic is conditioned by the health protection behaviors adopted by the population, which depends, in part, on their perception of the risk of contracting the disease. This study on the perception of the risk of COVID-19 infection in a sample of the Spanish population (N= 374) reveals that significant predictors of one’s perce...

In this research we designed an instrument to evaluate public attitudes towards flood risk management measures applicable to urban flood prone areas. Using the focus group qualitative research technique, a total of 24 stakeholders organized in three groups discussed about these measures. Content analysis allowed us to identify main opinions and bel...

This research analyses pro-environmental behaviour (considering four categories: transport and mobility, waste management, ecological consumption and activism) according to environmental attitudes and certain contextual factors regarding the neighbourhood of residence. In addition, based on the assumptions of ABC theory, we evaluate the moderating...

This research proposes a systematic application of goal-framing theory to understand psychological factors which drive pro-environmental behaviours (PB). The aim is to analyse the explanatory power of goals (gain, normative and hedonic) on eight different categories and subtypes of PB. The study sample consisted of 643 people living in Castilla-La...

The aim of this study is to empirically test the ABC model to assess the importance of attitudinal and contextual factors on pro-environmental behaviour (PB). The study sample consisted of 218 Chinese. The results show that four types of PB - waste disposal and management, transport and mobility, green consumption, and environmental activism - are...

Introducción. La actual crisis ambiental revela la necesidad de actuar inmediatamente desde la educación ambiental a edades tempranas. El presente trabajo presenta un estudio de caso cuyo objetivo es comprobar si una intervención educativa es adecuada para fomentar actitudes proambientales, conductas y conocimientos relativos a la correcta separaci...

Most of the deaths and economic losses resulting from natural disasters that have occurred in Spain have been brought about by floods. The adequate management of flood risks is, therefore, a critical aspect as regards improving the quality of life of populations living in flood risk areas. Local communities’ social resilience to floods is directly...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en presentar el potencial que el análisis de la percepción psicosocial tiene para el diseño de estrategias de gestión y comunicación del riesgo de inundaciones. Para ello, en primer lugar, se realiza una exposición teórica de los principales procesos psicológicos implicados en la evaluación del riesgo de inundac...

Background: Most studies focused on measuring environmental attitudes consider a one-dimension measure of pro/anti-environmentalism, such as NEP scale. Nevertheless, more recent research has shown that it seems more adequate to use a multidimensional approach when assessing complex relations among people and the natural environment, particularly o...

Flash floods are unexpected events, which evolve rapidly and affect relatively small areas. The short time available for minimising risks requires preparedness and active response. In this context of risk management, the flood risk perception of the local population is the first step towards achieving resilience of people and communities. Although...

Climate change requires the designing of strategies that mitigate the damage to people’s daily life. One of the most notable consequences of climate change in the Iberian Peninsula is flooding, the frequency and social and economic impact of which have increased in recent decades. As a result, a change of paradigm in flood risk management has been...

Environmental managers are increasingly aware of the importance of involving different stakeholders to develop flood risk management policies and to design effective communication strategies. In order to involve the stakeholders in these processes is required first a broad understanding of: (1) how they perceive flood risks; (2) what kind of intere...

Recent research has shown that it seems more adequate a multidimensional approach instead of a traditional one-dimensional measure of pro/anti environmentalism (NEP), when measuring environmental concern (EC), particularly on a cultural basis. This paper aims to test the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Environmental Concern Scale in...

This work aims to analyze the relationship between temporal perspective and environmental concern, using a multidimensional approach for the measurement of environmental attitudes instead of a traditional one-dimensional measure. The sample of the study was 553 Spanish university students who answered an online questionnaire. The results showed tha...

This work aims to analyze the relationship between temporal perspective and environmental risk perception, as well as to evaluate the role that temporal perspective plays in flood-risk perception and the intentions to adopt protective behaviors. Two studies were carried out with university students (N = 253) and general population of a municipality...

Why is it called risk when they only analyse hazard? Cartographic sources for flood risk analysis - Spanish and Portuguese frameworks. Estimating the best fit flood frequency distribution function for the evaluation of uncertainties in flood hazard mapping. Flood risk assessment in Pajares de Pedraza (Segovia, Central Spain). Experiences and res...

Flood risk management is gradually shifting from a risk-based approach to an integrated one that, among other elements, considers risk communication (RC) as a means of boosting resilience. Regardless of the above, few scientists have tackled up to now the integration of RC into flood risk management. In this connection, this particular study seeks...

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10578/20012. The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) is an interdisciplinary society which addresses emerging issues in risk analysis, management and policy. It operates world-wide and it has many International Sections. SRA was established in 1980 and has grown significantly since its founding. The Society has held an annual...

This paper analyses the effects of inducing emotions on thought-action repertoires related to nature following the Broaden-and-Build Theory (BBT). Based on a pilot study conducted with 279 university students, this study transculturally validated five videos that generated two positive, one neutral and two negative emotions. The main study, conduct...

Models based on a multidimensional structure of environmental attitudes are more appropriate than one-dimensional or dichotomic approaches when assessing the complex relationships people have with the natural environment. This work explores a model of environmental concern composed of four attitudinal dimensions (apathy, anthropocentrism, connectiv...

The chapter begins by making a conceptual reflection of the relation between, terms such as wellbeing and the quality of life, based on a contextualization of the residential satisfaction. Thereafter, a revision is carried out on the pioneer research in residential satisfaction. Concretely, the chapter shows how these studies find out evaluation cr...

This paper presents a study on the use of learning strategies in foreign languages, and more specifically Spanish. The study was conducted with 376 Chinese and American students who were studying Spanish in their countries of origin. The results obtained from a latent class cluster analysis identified five groups of participants based on the intens...

People leave ‘footprints’ in the environment in which they live and these become cues that reflect the occupants' identity. The aim of the present study was to determine the inferences about sociodemographic and personality traits made from the observation of primary spaces, and to identify the cues that facilitate such inferences. In Study 1, part...

The main objective of this research was to test the impact of a risk communication strategy (RCS) on the level of risk perception (RP) and preparedness in 201 participants living in an area prone to flash floods. A longitudinal research was designed and participants were interviewed twice (before and after the implementation of the RCS) within a on...

A suitable level of social awareness of Civil Protection Plans (CPP) is critical to minimize disasters and damages due to flash floods and, therefore, improving social vulnerability related to the impact of floods on households. This study describes and presents the results of the implementation of a Risk Communication Strategy (RCS) in a village l...

Flash floods provoke a high average mortality as they are usually unexpected events which evolve rapidly and affect relatively small areas. The short time available for minimizing risks requires preparedness and response actions to be put into practice. Therefore, it is necessary the development of emergency response plans to evacuate and rescue pe...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention programme administered to blind and sighted school students. The students were given information concerning style, author and technique of three paintings from three different artistic periods, as well as guidelines to assess the overall aesthetics of each image. This programme was administe...

The deterioration of the environment and the seriousness of current environmental problems have led to changes in individuals’ attitudes towards the environment, and have also modified their consumer behaviour, thus favouring the development of more responsible conducts in consumers in different part of the world. In spite of this, few previous emp...

By adopting a multidimensional approach to environmental attitudes (apathy, anthropocentrism, connectedness and emotional affinity with nature), this study explores the relationships between these dimensions, social dominance orientation (SDO) and political orientation. Two hundred and sixty-two Chilean university students filled out an ad hoc onli...

Background: This paper analyzes the experience of crowding through a biopsychosocial approach to human behavior which empirically joins different dimensions that the literature has analyzed separately. The main aim consists of identifying factors involved in perceived crowding from (a) the emotional response and affective meaning (BIO dimension);...

Se investiga la influencia del contexto de interacción social (cooperativo versus competitivo) junto con ciertas características disposicionales en la toma de decisiones ante dilemas ambientales. Se parte de la consideración de que entre las variables que incitan a un comportamiento proambiental están determinados rasgos de personalidad, creencias...

p> This paper contrasts high and low-density residential and functional environments through an assessment of the pleasure and arousal said environments elicit. The relationships between these affective dimensions and a measure of emotional well-being and personality traits are also explored. Two hundred thirty-eight university students assessed th...

A suitable level of social perception about flood risk and awareness of Civil Protection Plans are critical to minimize disasters and damages due to flash floods. To improve perception, awareness and, as a result, the effectiveness of Civil Protection Plans, it is often required the implementation of communication plans. Here, we propose a framewor...

Las conductas proambientales han sido ampliamente estudiadas, pero sólo recientemente se pueden encontrar algunos estudios que exploran su relación con las emociones positivas. Siguiendo esta última línea de investigación, este trabajo pretende analizar cómo se relaciona la exposición a emociones positivas con un comportamiento ante un dilema medio...

A suitable level of social perception about flood risk and awareness of Civil Protection Plans are critical to minimize disasters and damages due to flash floods. In order to improve risk perception, awareness and, as a result, the effectiveness of Civil Protection Plans, it is often required the implementation of communication plans. This research...

Se discutirán los resultados de un estudio piloto, que forma parte de un proyecto mayor, orientado al análisis transcultural de la preocupación ambiental y su relación con la conducta ecológica. El propósito de este artículo es mostrar los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación del instrumento creado en España para probarlo en la realidad chilena, d...

Este estudio, enmarcado en la Psicología Positiva, se propone presentar la relación entre la inducción de emociones positivas, negativas y neutras en el medio ambiente natural virtual, los estados afectivos que provocan y el repertorio sugerido de pensamientos de acción proambiental. La exposición a emociones positivas ayuda a construir nuevas habi...

Aguilar-Luzon (Ed.), ISBN 978-84-943701-6-8

Aguilar-Luzón (Ed.), ISBN 978-84-943701-6-8

Aguilar-Luzón (Ed.), ISBN 978-84-943701-6-8

Spain is, behind Switzerland, the second most mountainous country in Europe, which determines that after the occurrence of heavy or intense rainfall events, a fast hydrological response takes place due to steep slopes and strong hydrological connectivity. As a result, flash floods are, among natural hazards, the main social risk in Spain. In fact,...

Sáez-Martínez, Jiménez and Sánchez (Eds.), ISBN 978-84-697-1162-0

This study analyzes environmental concern from a multidimensional proposal of environmental attitudes. From a preceding multidimensional conceptualization with undergraduate student, the main objective is to test a measure of four dimensions of environmental attitudes in a sample of general population (N = 245). Furthermore, a relationship among th...

This study analyzes the learning of Spanish as a foreign language from a perspective based on Gardner’s socioeducational model. Two different studies are presented. The first study verifies the viability of the socioeducational model in Chinese university students who are learning either in linguistic and cultural immersion (Spain) or in their orig...

People leave their marks on the environment through the personalization of their spaces. In this regard, personalized space will allow people to make inferences regarding the occupant's personal and social characteristics. This research attempts to study the issue of impression formation based on the cues that people leave behind in their primary s...

Los ecosistemas de dehesas que ocupan el área geográfica de las regiones de sur-occidente peninsular español constituyen un ejemplo paradigmático de sistemas tradicionales de uso y aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales de un modo sostenido en el tiempo, lo que constituye un aporte del conocimiento de las culturas tradicionales a la construcción...

Resumen Los ecosistemas de dehesas que ocupan el área geográ ca de las regiones de sur-occidente peninsular español constituyen un ejemplo paradigmático de sistemas tradicionales de uso y aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales de un modo sostenido en el tiempo, lo que constituye un aporte desde el conocimiento de las culturas tradicionales a la...

Resumen Los ecosistemas de dehesas que ocupan el área geográ ca de las regiones de sur-occidente peninsular español constituyen un ejemplo paradigmático de sistemas tradicionales de uso y aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales de un modo sostenido en el tiempo, lo que constituye un aporte desde el conocimiento de las culturas tradicionales a la...

The natural environment has largely been overlooked by research into subjective well-being. The few studies to have addressed the issue have focused on the beneficial effects of contact with nature, but have not looked at how attitudes and behaviours towards the natural environment are related to subjective well-being. The present paper seeks to fi...

The natural environment has largely been overlooked by research into subjective well-being. The few studies to have addressed the issue have focused on the beneficial effects of contact with nature, but have not looked at how attitudes and behaviours towards the natural environment are related to subjective well-being. The present paper seeks to fi...

En: Estudios de psicología Madrid 2001, v. 22, n. 1 ; p. 65-73 El presente trabajo hace referencia a las relaciones entre los valores humanos, las intenciones de conducta proambiental, las creencias sobre las consecuencias de las condiciones medioambientales medidas a través de la escala del Nuevo Paradigma Ecológico (NPE) y las decisiones que se a...

This paper proposes a theoretically integrated structure made up of four dimensions pertaining to environmental concern: apathy, anthropocentrism, connectedness, and emotional affinity. These four dimensions are distributed along a gradient that reflects the inclusion of nature in the self. This proposal is empirically supported by a study conducte...

This paper proposes a theoretically integrated structure made up of four dimensions pertaining to environmental concern: apathy, anthropocentrism, connectedness, and emotional affinity. These four dimensions are distributed along a gradient that reflects the inclusion of nature in the self. This proposal is empirically supported by a study conducte...

La naturaleza ha sido un elemento ampliamente omitido en la literatura sobre bienestar emocional. La escasa investigación al respecto ha estado centrada en los efectos beneficiosos del contacto con la naturaleza, pero no en cómo las actitudes y conductas hacia el medio ambiente se asocian a un mayor o menor bienestar emocional. La presente investig...

Este trabajo comienza con la discusión acerca de la calidad de la educación y cómo ésta se entiende hoy como el desempeño de los estudiantes en pruebas normalizadas o estandarizadas, relegando a un segundo plano temas de formación ciudadana, sexualidad, diversidad, sustentabilidad, entre otros. A continuación se describe el proceso de instalación d...

Connectedness to Nature represents the relationship of the Self with the natural environment and has been made operative using different scales. One of the most systematically studied in the Anglo-Saxon context has been the Mayer and Frantz (2004) Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS). In an attempt to study the psychometric properties of this instru...

La presente investigación está centrada en el comportamiento socio-espacial de los individuos que viajan en los transportes públicos urbanos. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifiesto cómo la conducta socio-espacial humana, en el contexto concreto de los transportes públicos urbanos, presenta una gama de respuestas por parte del sujeto frente a...

This study aims to discover whether observers with the same cultural background as the inhabitant of a bedroom perceive common characteristics among the inhabitants. The study was carried out with 107 females who were asked to assess the inhabitants of eight bedrooms. Several slides of each bedroom were shown to participants and they had to choose...

González, Valle, Arce y Fariña (Eds.), ISBN 978-84-614-3441-1

Contenido: Aspectos conceptuales y metodológicos. Cognición ambiental. Emoción y ambiente. Factores físicos medioambientales. Espacio Personal y ecología del grupo pequeño. Privacidad y territorialidad. Hacinamiento. Ambientes residenciales. Laborales. Escolares. Institucionales. El medio urbano. Actitudes y creencias hacia el medio ambiente. Probl...

El presente trabajo profundiza en la distinta concepción que las personas poseen del ser humano y de la naturaleza en función de sus actitudes hacia el medio ambiente. En concreto se pretende establecer qué características se asocian al ser humano y a la naturaleza para aquellos sujetos que poseen actitudes biosféricas que valoran a la naturaleza p...

The present study focuses mainly on the relationship between psychological constructs and ecological behaviour. Empirical analysis links personal values, ecological beliefs, consequences of environmental conditions, denial of ecological obligation, environmental control, personal norms and environment protection behaviour. Survey data from a path a...

International Journal of psychology, 43(3/4), p. 292.

La presente investigación analiza el contenido de las creencias hacia las relaciones entre las personas y su medio ambiente combinando una perspectiva actitudinal con el enfoque de las representaciones sociales. De esta forma, el objetivo principal consiste en determinar si existe una representación social diferente de las relaciones entre el ser h...

This study focuses on the cognitive components of general environmental attitudes. Taking as a starting point the scale of Thompson and Barton (1994) to identify ecocentric and anthropocentric motives in environmental conservation, the beliefs that guide attitudes in the person-environment relationship are analyzed. Confirmatory factor analysis was...

Resumen Los estudios sobre preocupación ambiental asumen como supuesto que las personas perciben problemas ambientales, y tratan de conocer las variables intermedias que modulan el comportamiento proambiental, sin atender a las diferentes evaluaciones que se hacen sobre una gama tan variada de problemas de esta índole. En la presente investigación...

La presente investigación analiza las creencias que orientan la relación individuo-medio ambiente, hipotetizando que éstas se organizan en una estructura tripartita, según que el énfasis se ponga en el propio sujeto (egoísmo), en los seres humanos (socioaltruismo) o en la biosfera (biosferismo). Esta estructura se contrasta con otros enfoques bidim...

The structure of beliefs about environmental concern. In this study beliefs about the relationship between the individual and his/her natural environment are analysed and it is hypothesised that these beliefs are organised in a three-dimensional structure. according to the emphasis placed within the relationship on: self (egoism), human beings in g...

Numerous and complex are the processes related on the gradual damage of the environment which commit the biosphere degradation, welfare of population, natural resources depletion¿ Numerous are also the voices proclaiming the underlying social devices and demanding new ways of perceiving, thinking, acting and transforming society. From Environmental...