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Supplementary file 1_Unveiling adolescents’ climate agency modes and their personal, behavioral, and environmental determinants: a qualitative study.docx Jennifer Cunha (6374084) Rafaela Carneiro (25026019) Marcelo Félix (25026022) Pedro Rosário (4254736) Applied Psychology adolescents climate agency climate change human agency knowledge mitigation behaviors <p>Climate change severely affects the planet and individuals’ health and well-being. To take urgent action to mitigate this phenomenon, literature has advocated that adolescents can be active agents and protagonists of change, but how are they responding to these challenges? Grounded in Bandura’s theory of agency and the triadic reciprocal causation model, this study explored adolescents’ agency modes toward climate change and perceived personal, behavioral, and environmental determinants. Participants were 51 adolescents enrolled in middle and high schools. Data collected through semi-structured interviews with photo-elicitation and a focus group discussion were analyzed using content analysis. Findings revealed that adolescents at both school levels mainly report engaging in individual and collective actions to address climate change that do not simultaneously reflect the properties of human agency. Personal (e.g., superficial knowledge, low expected outcomes), behavioral (e.g., lack of control), and environmental (e.g., lack of community resources) determinants may help explain the current findings. Salient differences in data patterns among middle and high school students were reported and discussed. This study provides implications for future research and prompts reflection on educational practice.</p> 2026-09-17T13:30:59Z Dataset Dataset 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1882370.s001 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_file_1_Unveiling_adolescents_climate_agency_modes_and_their_personal_behavioral_and_environmental_determinants_a_qualitative_study_docx/33894553 CC BY 4.0