Resilient Activism
Are you active in a climate or environmental group? Join our resilient activism study!
What?
- Get to know yourself better
- Reflect on and get insights about your own emotion dynamics, wellbeing, and activism
- Get personalized feedback
- Contribute to a better understanding of sustainable activism
- Receive up to 30 € or an equivalent donation to an environmental movement
In this short video we explain you more about the study:
Why?
We are interested in how people feel who engage in climate activism. We aim to answer these questions: Does activism make us feel better or worse? Which emotions make us engage more? How do we deal with the emotions that we feel in relation to political action? When do people develop activist burnout?
How?
You will fill out a first survey (10 min) mainly about your engagement, then two weeks a quick daily survey (3 min) on your feelings and daily actions, and after three months a final survey (5 min) as in the beginning and an optional online group call for 1h. All your answers will be anonymized and cannot be tracked back to you anymore.
Sign up
If you want to participate, please sign up here:
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Process
Your participation consists of the following steps:
Getting started
- You sign up for the study and get an email from us.
Filling out surveys
- You fill out one survey (10 min) at the start of the study.
- For two weeks, you will get daily email in the evening, asking you to complete a short survey about wellbeing, emotions and political action (3 min each).
- Optionally you can participate in an online group call (60 min) to discuss the experience and findings at the end of the study. This would be recorded.
- Three months after the daily surveys, we will send you a follow-up survey (5 min) via email.
In total, the participation will take 1h (2h if you participate in the online group call).
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Rewards
You will receive a monetary reimbursement after the last daily survey.
Reimbursement
First survey
€3
Each daily survey
+ €1
Bonus for the first survey and at least 10 daily surveys + €5
Optional online group call
+ €8 (paid after the online group call)
So in total, you can get up to 30 €. You can choose to get this money yourself via bank transfer or choose a donation to an environmental organization that you can pick from a list of options including:
Who are we?
The study is led by Anna Sach and Linli Zhou, two PhD researchers at the University of Amsterdam. We both study climate action and emotions. Anna focuses on the drivers and experiences of climate activism, Linli investigates how feeling positive and doing something for the climate are related with each other. We are part of the Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre on Emotion. We closely work together with climate movements and support with research and advice, for example as part of the Extinction Rebellion Data Analysis and Insights Circle.
The wider team consists of the professors Disa Sauter, Cameron Brick and Nils Jostmann, whose expertise is on emotions, pro-environmental behaviors and motivation, respectively.