Global citizenship identity mediates the relationship of knowledge, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills with engagement towards global issues.

ABSTRACT: The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a unified framework to address interconnected global issues, emphasizing the need for collective action across all sectors of society to achieve a sustainable future for all. In this paper, we empirically investigate how knowledge (awareness of global issues), cognitive skills (critical inquiry), and socio-emotional skills (cognitive empathy) relate to engagement towards global issues, and whether global citizenship identification mediates these relationships. Mediation analysis of data from 249 participants revealed that both awareness of global issues and cognitive empathy directly predict higher engagement levels. In contrast, no direct effect of critical inquiry was observed. Global citizenship identification significantly mediated th

SUBMITTER: Carmona M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436839 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature