The relationships among nature connectedness, climate anxiety, climate action, climate knowledge, and mental health [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionClimate change is a source of global concern that has both direct and general impacts on mental health. A recent study conducted following severe bushfires in Australia demonstrated relationships among nature connectedness, climate action ...
Emily E. Thomson, Sean P. Roach
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Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 13-item questionnaire for assessing climate anxiety (CA) as a psychological response to climate change. The CAS consists of two subscales, namely, cognitive impairment and functional impairment.
Paweł Larionow +6 more
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Measuring young individuals’ responses to climate change: validation of the Slovenian versions of the climate anxiety scale and the climate change worry scale [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionWhile increasing awareness of climate change is needed to address this threat to the natural environment and humanity, it may simultaneously negatively impact mental health.
Nejc Plohl +3 more
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Climate anxiety as a call to global justice [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyClimate anxiety (or eco-anxiety) is a growing psychological phenomenon linked to the increasing awareness of the environmental crisis caused by climate change.
Batul Hanife +4 more
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Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the climate anxiety scale in Spanish-speaking adolescents [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionEvidence suggests that climate change affects both the physical and mental health of the global population. In this context, interest in research and in the development of reliable and valid tools to measure climate anxiety—defined as the ...
David Jimenez-Vazquez +4 more
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Climate anxiety impairs sustained attention: objective evidence of a cognitive cost [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionAs climate anxiety rises globally, it may influence how individuals cognitively engage with the climate crisis. Although cognitive functioning is a key component of climate anxiety, its association with objectively measurable cognitive ...
Ekaterina Denkova +4 more
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Climate change anxiety among young women living in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda: findings from the baseline assessment of the TOPOWA cohort study [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction Climate change is an emerging global health crisis, particularly in low-resource settings like Uganda’s urban slums. These areas face significant challenges in mitigating climate risks, exacerbating the vulnerability of residents. This study
David M Ndetei +8 more
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Psych, 2022 (1) Background: Climate change is a major threat to human health and new research is highlighting its effects on physical health. However, there is still little research on the psychological effects, particularly on young people, who seem to be ...
Kévin Nadarajah +7 more
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Eco-anxiety: What it is and why it matters
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Researchers are increasingly trying to understand both the emotions that we experience in response to ecological crises like climate change and the ways in which these emotions might be valuable for our (psychical, psychological, and moral) wellbeing ...
Charlie Kurth +3 more
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‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: exploring utopian discourses in the school strike for climate movement [PDF]
, 2020 This article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and ...
McKnight, Heather
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