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
Pihkala Panu
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Eco-Anxiety and Pastoral Care: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Suggestions [PDF]
Religions, 2022 The environmental crisis is producing an increasing number of both physical and psychological impacts. This article studies the challenge of eco-anxiety for pastoral care, drawing from both interdisciplinary research and ecological theology.
Panu Pihkala
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Eco-anxiety: What it is and why it matters [PDF]
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 ...
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Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Anxiety and distress about the ecological crisis seems to be a rapidly growing phenomenon. This article analyzes the challenges and possibilities posed by such “eco-anxiety” for environmental education. Variations of eco-anxiety are analyzed, and it is argued that educators should be aware of the multiple forms that the phenomenon has.
Pihkala, Panu
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, 2021 This chapter addresses the rise of eco-anxiety, which manifests not only in popular individual and group psychologies, but also impacts the work of professional researchers who live on a daily basis with a knowledge of the unsustainable present. While this creates guilt, worry, and anger, the author counterposes a hope for a ‘practical anxiety’, which ...
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Validating a measure for eco-anxiety in Portuguese young adults and exploring its associations with environmental action [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Worsening environmental conditions may amplify people’s emotional responses to an environmental crisis (eco-anxiety). In Portugal, young people seem to be especially concerned about climate change.
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Eco-Anxiety and Mental Health: Correlates of Climate Change Distress. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthBackground. Climate change is increasingly recognized as a threat to mental health, giving rise to constructs such as eco-anxiety and solastalgia. Although these phenomena have gained attention, quantitative data from European populations remain scarce ...
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Eating disorders and eco-anxiety: exploring mental health challenges in university students [PDF]
Journal of Eating DisordersBackground Climate change is a major global challenge with profound psychological impacts, including eco-anxiety, defined as a chronic fear of environmental catastrophe.
Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, Joël Ladner
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Anxiety for the planet, health for the body: the relationship between eco-anxiety and the Mediterranean diet in Turkish young adults. [PDF]
J Sci Food AgricEco‐anxiety is a psychological state that expresses concerns about climate change and is thought to affect individuals' adherence to the Mediterranean diet; however, no study has examined this relationship.
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Anxiety in response to the climate and environmental crises: validation of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale in Germany [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundAs the climate and environmental crises unfold, eco-anxiety, defined as anxiety about the crises’ devastating consequences for life on earth, affects mental health worldwide.
Stephan Heinzel +14 more
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