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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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.
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The psychology of climate anxiety. [PDF]
BJPsych Bull, 2021 This paper focuses on climate anxiety and its role in the psychology of climate change, compared with responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Four psychological hypotheses for why we do not act on climate change will be reviewed, and the role of anxiety for each, as well as potential solutions.
Dodds J.
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Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco-Anxiety and Climate Anxiety [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Eco-anxiety and climate anxiety are widely discussed in contemporary media and are subjects of growing research interest. However, there is a lack of research about the definitions and variations of these phenomena. This article analyzes various views of eco-anxiety from a wide range of disciplines.
Panu Petteri Pihkala
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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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On the Measurement of Climate Change Anxiety: French Validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale. [PDF]
Psychol Belg, 2022 The notion of climate change anxiety has gained traction in the last years. Clayton & Karazsia (2020) recently developed the 22-item Climate Change Anxiety Scale (CAS), which assesses climate change anxiety via a four-factor structure. Yet other research has cast doubts on the very structure of the CAS by calling either for a shorter (i.e.
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Toward a unified understanding of climate anxiety: Examining measures of climate and eco-anxiety. [PDF]
PLoS OneDespite recent research efforts to understand climate anxiety, related measurement is challenged by multiple definitions and the emergence of several seemingly similar measures, warranting a thorough and joint investigation of their validity. This study (N = 1003) examined the factor structure of existing measures, namely the Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS)
Hempel LM, Geiger M, Betsch C.
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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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Determinants of climate anxiety and willingness for climate-friendly behavioral change in German students: a quantitative study [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Young people are increasingly concerned about climate change, which can negatively affect their mental health. Course content about the health consequences of climate change, as taught to students of health-related subjects, is associated with
Timothy Mc Call +9 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 ...
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