IntechOpen eBooks,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Nov. 19, 2024
Ecological
distress
significantly
impacts
mental
health,
leading
to
heightened
stress,
anxiety,
depression,
and,
in
severe
cases,
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
(PTSD).
As
climate
change
intensifies,
addressing
these
psychological
becomes
increasingly
urgent.
Despite
recognizing
ecological
as
a
critical
issue,
there
is
limited
evidence
of
evidence-based,
scalable
interventions
mitigate
its
effects.
This
lack
especially
concerning
for
children
and
youth,
older
adults
or
marginalized
groups
who
are
more
vulnerable
due
health
conditions
social
isolation.
chapter
reviews
the
repercussions
change,
defining
highlighting
prevalence
followed
by
description
on
various
individuals,
families
community
well
generational
lifespan
perspectives
involved.
Coping
mechanisms
adaptive
responses
crisis,
particularly
role
emotional
regulation
reviewed.
Various
discussed
aligning
with
treating
climate-aware
therapist
highlighted.
Climate
Cafés,
unique
safe
space
expressing
climate-related
emotions
also
described.
Climatic Change,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
177(10)
Published: Oct. 1, 2024
Abstract
Young
people
are
worried
about
climate
change
but
the
association
with
current
and
past
mental
health
symptoms
is
rarely
examined
in
longitudinal
population-based
samples.
Drawing
on
a
birth
cohort
from
Canadian
province
of
Quebec
(
n
=
1325),
this
study
used
cross-over
design
to
(1)
test
between
worry
at
age
23-years
concurrent
assessed
standardised
instruments,
(2)
adolescent
(15
17
years)
anxiety,
depression,
inattention-hyperactivity,
aggression-opposition
23-years.
Participant
sex,
cognitive
ability,
socioeconomic
status,
parental
were
adjusted
for.
Descriptive
statistics
showed
that
most
participants
change:
190
(14.3%)
extremely
worried,
383
(28.9%)
very
553
(41.7%)
somewhat
199
(15.0%)
not
all
worried.
In
analysis
1,
was
associated
significantly
higher
self-harm
symptoms,
even
after
adjustment
for
symptoms.
2,
anxious
adolescents
more
likely
be
six
years
later
(RRR
1.51,
95%CI
1.10–2.07),
while
aggressive-oppositional
less
0.79,
0.63–0.0.99),
0.61,
0.48–0.78),
or
0.51,
0.37–0.72).
Taken
together,
who
had
also
have
prior
Adolescents
anxiety
early
adulthood,
those
worry.
Future
studies
should
track
longitudinally
alongside
using
prospective
follow-up
studies.
Research
on
the
emotional
experience
of
climate
change
has
become
a
hot
topic.
Yet
uncertainties
remain
regarding
interplay
between
change-related
emotions
(i.e.,
eco-anxiety,
eco-anger,
eco-sadness),
general
regardless
change),
and
pro-environmental
behaviors.
Most
previous
research
focused
cross-sectional
studies,
eco-emotions
in
everyday
life
have
seldom
been
considered.
In
this
preregistered
study,
102
participants
from
population
rated
their
corresponding
anxiety,
anger,
sadness),
intentions
behaviors
daily
over
60-day
period.
Using
multilevel
vector
autoregressive
approach,
we
computed
three
network
models
representing
temporal
one
time-point
to
next),
contemporaneous
during
same
time
frame),
between-subject
similar
approach)
associations
variables.
Results
show
that
eco-anger
was
only
predictor
time.
At
level,
momentary
each
eco-emotion
associated
with
emotion,
indicating
distinctiveness
correspondence
its
general,
non-climate-related
emotion.
Overall,
our
findings
1)
emphasize
driving
role
prompting
time,
2)
suggest
functional
experiential
distinction
eco-emotions,
3)
provide
data-driven
clues
for
field's
larger
quest
establish
scientific
foundations
eco-emotions.
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
42(2), P. 241 - 247
Published: Nov. 5, 2023
The
Eco-Generativity
Scale
(EGS)
is
a
recently
developed
28-item
scale
derived
from
4-factor
higher-order
model
(ecological
generativity,
social
environmental
identity,
and
agency/pathways).
aim
of
this
study
was
to
develop
short-scale
version
the
EGS
facilitate
its
use
with
university
students
(
N
=
779)
who
will
determine
future
our
world’s
ecosystem.
Data
analyses
included
removing
misfitting
items
assessing
psychometric
properties
short
form.
Scale-Short
Form
(EGS-SF)
showed
good
fit
for
composed
four
factors
sixteen
(four
each
factor).
IntechOpen eBooks,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Nov. 19, 2024
Ecological
distress
significantly
impacts
mental
health,
leading
to
heightened
stress,
anxiety,
depression,
and,
in
severe
cases,
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
(PTSD).
As
climate
change
intensifies,
addressing
these
psychological
becomes
increasingly
urgent.
Despite
recognizing
ecological
as
a
critical
issue,
there
is
limited
evidence
of
evidence-based,
scalable
interventions
mitigate
its
effects.
This
lack
especially
concerning
for
children
and
youth,
older
adults
or
marginalized
groups
who
are
more
vulnerable
due
health
conditions
social
isolation.
chapter
reviews
the
repercussions
change,
defining
highlighting
prevalence
followed
by
description
on
various
individuals,
families
community
well
generational
lifespan
perspectives
involved.
Coping
mechanisms
adaptive
responses
crisis,
particularly
role
emotional
regulation
reviewed.
Various
discussed
aligning
with
treating
climate-aware
therapist
highlighted.
Climate
Cafés,
unique
safe
space
expressing
climate-related
emotions
also
described.
