The Emotional Climate Scale: Understanding Emotions, Context and Justice

Emotional Context ? Or Contextual Emotions ?

The question “What is the meaning of a smile?” could be easily answered with the sentence “it means happiness”. But we can see in our daily lives that it is not always true. We also recognize that there is the context the one that makes us differentiate a happy smile from an embarrassed smile. The context is the framework that gives emotions a reason for happening because it describes what occu...

Predicting Students’ Academic Engagement Based on Academic Support and Family Emotional Climate: The Mediating Role of Academic Emotions

This study was carried out to predict academic engagement based on academic support and family emotional climate with the mediating role of academic emotions. This cross-sectional research had a descriptive-correlational design. The statistical population of the study comprised all female junior high school students in Semnan in 2019-20 school year from among whom 236 individuals were selected ...

Cultural differences in emotions: a context for interpreting emotional experiences.

In this article, it is suggested that cross-cultural assessment of emotional disturbances would benefit from the consideration of cultural differences in the modal, and normative emotions. A summary of the research literature on cultural differences in emotions, in particular in antecedent events, subjective feeling, appraisal, and behavior is provided. Cultural differences in emotions are unde...

Justice and Climate Change

Climate change raises complex issues of science, economics, and politics; it also raises difficult issues of justice. Poor nations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, in part because they are poor. Wealthy nations have less at risk, in part because they are wealthy. It is both tempting and plausible to suggest that for either emissions reductions or adaptation, wealthy nations owe...

Climate Justice