Wednesday 22 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 28 - Room 6 SPT
Chair:
Rossier Jérôme
Co-Chair:
Cohen-Scali Valérie
Division: Division 16: Counseling Psychology
Our societies are facing unprecedented social and ecological crises, often referred to by the terms "Anthropocene"and "Capitalocene". Young people around the world are particularly concerned about the impact of these global crises on their futures. The rising awareness of the Anthropocene is reshaping individual's perspectives on the future (Wallenborst & Pierron, 2019). In this sense, Haraway (2016, in Pereira Savi, 2017), invites humans to be ethically responsible in order to improve the situation, particularly climate change which threatens to end countless lives on earth. The concept of forms of active life (Cohen-Scali et al., 2025) has been gradually developed in the career guidance literature and appears to help figure out the different ways young adults face the challenges associated to the Anthropocene. This symposium will be based on a global research study encompassing several nations including Brazil, France, Iran, Tunisia, and the United States for those presentations are proposed. This exploratory research project seeks to understand how young adults from different regions of the world, regarding their perception of the environmental issues and how these perceptions make their choices, shape their lives and future career plans and develop new forms of life. Researchers from each country have conducted semi-structured interviews using a standardized interview protocol with 10 students aged 18-25, being more or less involved in environmental activism work. Half of them are science majors and half are humanities majors. Consensual qualitative research analysis (Hill, 2012) has be used for this project. Each country has formed a research team that created domains and core ideas and code the interview data. The presentations draw the main lines of the forms of life young adults are developing, main differences and main common aspects between the groups of young people regarding northern and southern countries facing differently the climate crises.
