The impact of climate change on mental health and emotional wellbeing: a narrative review of current evidence, and its implications

EL Lawrance, R Thompson… - … Review of Psychiatry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Converging global evidence highlights the dire consequences of climate change for human
mental health and wellbeing. This paper summarises literature across relevant disciplines to …

[HTML][HTML] Eco-anxiety: What it is and why it matters

C Kurth, P Pihkala - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

C Hickman, E Marks, P Pihkala, S Clayton… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children
and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to …

[HTML][HTML] Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?

L Whitmarsh, L Player, A Jiongco, M James… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As scientific evidence of the severity of climate change increases, there are indications that
this represents a significant psychological burden in the form of climate anxiety on the …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a taxonomy of climate emotions

P Pihkala - Frontiers in climate, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in
profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying types of eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, eco-grief, and eco-coping in a climate-sensitive population: A qualitative study

C Ágoston, B Csaba, B Nagy, Z Kőváry, A Dúll… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century and it can
affect mental health either directly through the experience of environmental traumas or …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States

KP Tam, HW Chan, S Clayton - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change anxiety is becoming recognized as a way in which climate change affects
mental health. It is not only observed in populations that suffer the most from the direct …

[HTML][HTML] On climate anxiety and the threat it may pose to daily life functioning and adaptation: A study among European and African French-speaking participants

A Heeren, C Mouguiama-Daouda, A Contreras - Climatic change, 2022 - Springer
The notion of climate anxiety has gained traction in the last years. Yet uncertainty remains
regarding the variations of climate anxiety across demographic characteristics (eg, gender …

[HTML][HTML] The psychological consequences of the ecological crisis: Three new questionnaires to assess eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, and ecological grief

C Ágoston, R Urban, B Nagy, B Csaba, Z Kőváry… - Climate risk …, 2022 - Elsevier
As climate change develops reactions such as eco-anxiety, eco-guilt and ecological grief
are becoming increasingly common. Our aim was to develop questionnaires to assess these …

Synthesising psychometric evidence for the climate anxiety scale and Hogg eco-anxiety scale

TL Hogg, SK Stanley, LV O'Brien - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Two tools have recently been developed to reflect experiences of climate-and eco-anxiety.
However, it is not yet clear how these tools perform across countries, thus highlighting a …