On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?

By Bas Verplanken, Elizabeth Marks, Alexandru I. Dobrimir. 2020

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates (2021, background): “People whose basic psychological needs are satisfied are more likely to act pro-environmentally (see Wullenkord (2020) for an overview).”
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. (2021, unknown): “In threatening and uncertain situations such as the climate crisis, this response can be seen as what is sometimes referred to as practical anxiety 1,4 because it has the beneficial effect of leading people to reassess their behaviour in order to respond appropriately.”
Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review (2021, background): “Finally, in a recent article, two separate studies showed significant positive relations between trait pathological worry and global warming worry; this relationship was, however, nonsignificant when controlling for worry about personal issues (43).”
A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct (2021, methodology): “Decreased distance was also related to a higher perceived risk of climate change (Carmi & Kimhi, 2015), increased habitual worry (Verplanken et al., 2020) and stronger affective reactions (Brügger, Morton, & Dessai, 2015; Carmi & Kimhi, 2015; Verplanken et al.”