Attila Varga

5. Social sciences
- 5.1 Psychology
  - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
- 5.3 Educational sciences
  - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics

Main research areas

Psychological and pedagogical foundations and effectiveness of sustainability education, environmental education and science education

My research focuses on the education for sustainability. Part of my research is aimed at the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of students and adults on sustainability issues. Another focus of my research is the impact assessment of various sustainability education, environmental education, and science education and awareness raising programs. The main goal of my research is to support the effectiveness of education for sustainability, environmental education and science education with psychological and educational research results.

Keywords

sustainability, education for sustainable development, environmental education, environmental psychology, science education

Highlighted publications

2019 – Dafna, Gan; Avid, Gal; Réka, Könczey; Attila, Varga – Do eco-schools really help implementation of ESD? – mtmt.hu
2022 – Ágoston, Csilla ✉ et al. – The psychological consequences of the ecological crisis: Three new questionnaires to assess eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, and ecological grief – mtmt.hu
2024 – Stefkovics, Ádám ✉ et al. – Climate change worry in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from two large-scale European surveys – mtmt.hu
2024 – Kovács, L.N. ✉ et al. – Acting as we feel: Which emotional responses to the climate crisis motivate climate action – mtmt.hu
2024 – Ágoston, Csilla ✉; Buvár, Ágnes; Dúll, Andrea; Szabó, Zoltán Ábel; Varga, Attila – Complex pathways from nature relatedness and knowledge to pro-environmental behavior through eco-emotions – mtmt.hu

Other

Research Group: Sustainability and Psychology Research Group