Canadian Adolescents Perceptions of Survey Questions about Climate Emotions and Coping Strategies
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Abstract
Abstract Background Globally, there is increased research and media attention about how young people are experiencing climate change. Much of this attention is about the worry and concern young people feel about climate change, with recent survey research finding that the majority of young people are at least moderately worried about climate change. Objectives To examine the perceptions that Canadian adolescents have about survey measures that have been used to study climate emotions and the coping strategies they use. Methods Seven online focus groups occurred in December 2022 with Canadian adolescents aged 15-18. The focus groups began with a brainstorming activity followed by a semi-structured discussion about climate emotion survey questions that have been used in previous surveys. Data were analyzed using rapid thematic analysis. Results Overall, Canadian adolescents showed a preference for questions that allowed for more nuance in their response. Questions that were seen to allow for a variety of perspectives were also favored. Conclusions Findings from this study can be used to guide survey item development/adaptation in this emerging field of inquiry. Key messages • Participants indicated a preference for multi-item questions in relation to climate emotions. • Focusing on coping items was deemed a priority.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".