Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
109, С. 102957 - 102957
Опубликована: Дек. 19, 2024
Climate
anxiety
is
a
phenomenon
that
gaining
importance
due
to
the
general
public's
increased
awareness
of
worsening
climate
crisis.
At
present,
not
operationalized
consistently
across
existing
literature.
It
important
gain
more
consensus
on
definition
and
operationalization
facilitate
reliable
generalizable
research
further
develop
interventions.
Content
analysis
can
contribute
this
by
providing
insight
into
overlap
in
content
measures.
With
systematic
search,
study
identified
analyzed
12
distinct
scales
measuring
anxiety.
The
119
items
covered
total
57
disparate
symptoms.
Jaccard
indices
showed
mean
between
symptoms
different
was
generally
very
low,
as
pairwise
comparisons
scales.
These
results
highlight
lack
uniformity
assessing
need
properly
define
operationalize
concept.
potential
reasons
for
low
how
might
impact
reliability
validity
measures
are
discussed.
critical
future
work
aims
at
finding
(e.g.,
through
Delphi
study)
psychometrically
comparing
questionnaires.
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,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
42(2), С. 241 - 247
Опубликована: Ноя. 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).
Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
109, С. 102957 - 102957
Опубликована: Дек. 19, 2024
Climate
anxiety
is
a
phenomenon
that
gaining
importance
due
to
the
general
public's
increased
awareness
of
worsening
climate
crisis.
At
present,
not
operationalized
consistently
across
existing
literature.
It
important
gain
more
consensus
on
definition
and
operationalization
facilitate
reliable
generalizable
research
further
develop
interventions.
Content
analysis
can
contribute
this
by
providing
insight
into
overlap
in
content
measures.
With
systematic
search,
study
identified
analyzed
12
distinct
scales
measuring
anxiety.
The
119
items
covered
total
57
disparate
symptoms.
Jaccard
indices
showed
mean
between
symptoms
different
was
generally
very
low,
as
pairwise
comparisons
scales.
These
results
highlight
lack
uniformity
assessing
need
properly
define
operationalize
concept.
potential
reasons
for
low
how
might
impact
reliability
validity
measures
are
discussed.
critical
future
work
aims
at
finding
(e.g.,
through
Delphi
study)
psychometrically
comparing
questionnaires.
