Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries

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作者
Ogunbode, Charles A. [1 ]
Doran, Rouven [2 ]
Hanss, Daniel [3 ]
Ojala, Maria [4 ]
Salmela-Aro, Katariina [5 ]
van den Broek, Karlijn L. [6 ,7 ]
Bhullar, Navjot [8 ]
Aquino, Sibele D. [9 ]
Marot, Tiago [9 ]
Schermer, Julie Aitken [10 ]
Wlodarczyk, Anna [11 ]
Lu, Su [12 ]
Jiang, Feng [13 ]
Maran, Daniela Acquadro [14 ]
Yadav, Radha [15 ]
Ardi, Rahkman [16 ]
Chegeni, Razieh [2 ]
Ghanbarian, Elahe [17 ,18 ]
Zand, Somayeh [18 ,19 ]
Najafi, Reza [19 ,20 ]
Park, Joonha [20 ]
Tsubakita, Takashi [20 ]
Tan, Chee-Seng [21 ]
Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika [22 ]
Ojewumi, Kehinde Aderemi [23 ]
Tahir, Hajra [2 ]
Albzour, Mai [24 ]
Reyes, Marc Eric S. [25 ]
Lins, Samuel [26 ]
Enea, Violeta [27 ]
Volkodav, Tatiana [28 ]
Sollar, Tomas [29 ]
Navarro-Carrillo, Gines [30 ]
Torres-Marin, Jorge [31 ]
Mbungu, Winfred [32 ]
Ayanian, Arin H. [33 ]
Ghorayeb, Jihane [34 ]
Onyutha, Charles [35 ]
Lomas, Michael J. [36 ]
Helmy, Mai [37 ,38 ]
Martinez-Buelvas, Laura [39 ]
Bayad, Aydin [33 ,40 ]
Karasu, Mehmet [33 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Sch Psychol, Nottingham, England
[2] Univ Bergen, Fac Psychol, Dept Psychosocial Sci, Bergen, Norway
[3] Darmstadt Univ Appl Sci, Dept Social Sci, Darmstadt, Germany
[4] Orebro Univ, Sch Law Psychol & Social Work, Orebro, Sweden
[5] Univ Helsinki, Dept Educ Sci, Helsinki, Finland
[6] Univ Utrecht, Copernicus Inst Sustainable Dev, Utrecht, Netherlands
[7] Heidelberg Univ, Res Ctr Environm Econ, Heidelberg, Germany
[8] Univ New England, Sch Psychol, Armidale, NSW, Australia
[9] Pontif Catholic Univ Rio de Janeiro, Psychol Dept, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[10] Univ Western Ontario, Fac Social Sci, Dept Management & Org Studies, London, ON, Canada
[11] Univ Catolica Norte, Escuela Psicol, Fac Humanidades, Santiago, Chile
[12] De Montfort Univ, Sch Appl Social Sci, Leicester, Leics, England
[13] Univ Greenwich, Dept Human Resources & Org Behav, London, England
[14] Univ Torino, Dept Psychol, Turin, Italy
[15] Christ Univ, Sch Business & Management, Bangalore, India
[16] Univ Airlangga, Dept Psychol, Surabaya, Indonesia
[17] Univ Tehran, Dept Educ Psychol & Counselling, Tehran, Iran
[18] Univ Milano Bicocca, Dept Psychol, Milan, Italy
[19] Univ Padua, Dept Gen Psychol, Padua, Italy
[20] Nagoya Univ Commerce & Business, Nagoya, Japan
[21] Univ Tunku Abdul Rahman, Fac Arts & Social Sci, Dept Psychol & Counselling, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
[22] Univ Nigeria, Dept Psychol, Nsukka, Nigeria
[23] Obafemi Awolowo Univ, Dept Psychol, Ife, Nigeria
[24] Birzeit Univ, Dept Social & Behav Sci, Birzeit, Palestine
[25] Univ Santo Tomas, Coll Sci, Dept Psychol, Manila, Philippines
[26] Univ Porto, Fac Psychol & Educ Sci, Porto, Portugal
[27] Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ, Dept Psychol, Iasi, Romania
[28] Kuban State Univ, Fac Pedag Psychol & Communicol, Krasnodar, Russia
[29] Constantine Philosopher Univ Nitra, Fac Social Sci & Healthcare, Dept Psychol Sci, Nitra, Slovakia
[30] Univ Jaen, Dept Psychol, Jaen, Spain
[31] Univ Granada, Dept Res Methods Behav Sci, Granada, Spain
[32] Sokoine Univ Agr, Sch Engn & Technol, Dept Civil & Water Resources Engn, Morogoro, Tanzania
[33] Bielefeld Univ, Inst Interdisciplinary Res Conflict & Violence, Bielefeld, Germany
[34] Zayed Univ, Dept Psychol, Dubai, U Arab Emirates
[35] Kyambogo Univ, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Kampala, Uganda
[36] Univ Salford, Sch Hlth & Soc, Salford, England
[37] Sultan Qaboos Univ, Dept Psychol, Seeb, Oman
[38] Menuofia Univ, Fac Arts, Psychol Dept, Shibin Al Kawm, Egypt
[39] Univ Tecnol Bolivar, Cartagena, Colombia
[40] Van Yuzuncu Yil Univ, Van, Turkey
关键词
Climate change anxiety; Climate change; Wellbeing; Pro-environmental behaviour; Climate activism; Emotions; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; COGNITIVE MODEL; MEDIA EXPOSURE; PERCEPTIONS; EXPERIENCE; RISK; LINK; COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; ATTENTION;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively related to rate of exposure to information about climate change impacts, the amount of attention people pay to climate change information, and perceived descriptive norms about emotional responding to climate change. Climate anxiety was also positively linked to pro-environmental behaviours and negatively linked to mental wellbeing. Notably, climate anxiety had a significant inverse association with mental wellbeing in 31 out of 32 countries. In contrast, it had a significant association with pro-environmental behaviour in 24 countries, and with environ-mental activism in 12 countries. Our findings highlight contextual boundaries to engagement in environmental action as an antidote to climate anxiety, and the broad international significance of considering negative climate -related emotions as a plausible threat to wellbeing.
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