161859 20251017144606.0 doi 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102656 sideral 144478 ART-2025-144478 eng Carballo-Losada, Marta Young children's global climate change salience and comprehension: The effect of parental perception and communication 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Children are particularly vulnerable to global climate change (GCC), yet their reactions to GCC are largely unexplored. This study examines 5-8-year-old children's understanding of GCC and how salient it is to them. Specifically, we checked whether children's salience and comprehension of GCC varied with age and investigated the role of parents as primary socialization agents in these processes. In a sample of 312 child-parent dyads from Spain, we gathered data through structured interviews with children and standardized questionnaires completed by parents. Children's age was positively related to salience and comprehension of GCC, with a marked increase around age 7. When parents view GCC as more proximate in time, they communicate more frequently about GCC with their children. This, in turn, enhances children's awareness and understanding of GCC. Children's gender and parents' educational background, political views, and family income were not significantly linked to children's GCC salience or comprehension info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Collado, Silvia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3580-5947 Rodríguez-Rey, Rocío Brown, Abigail Evans, Gary W. 4009 740 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicología Social 105 (2025), 102656 [10 pp.] J. environ. psychol. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 0272-4944 1529731 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/161859/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2547135 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/161859/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:161859 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:15:31 ARTICLE