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

作者：Charles A. Ogunbode, Rouven Doran, Daniel Hanss, Maria Ojala, Katariina Salmela‐Aro, Karlijn L. van den Broek, Navjot Bhullar, Sibele D. Aquino, Tiago Azevedo Marot, Julie Aitken Schermer, Anna Włodarczyk, Su Lu, Feng Jiang, Daniela Acquadro Maran, Radha Yadav, Rahkman Ardi, Razieh Chegeni, Elahe Ghanbarian, Somayeh Zand, Reza Najafi, Joonha Park, Takashi Tsubakita, Chee‐Seng Tan, JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, Kehinde A. Ojewumi, Hajra Tahir, Mai Albzour, Marc Eric S. Reyes, Samuel Lins, Violeta Enea, Tatiana Volkodav, Tomáš Sollár, Ginés Navarro‐Carrillo, Jorge Torres‐Marín, Winfred Mbungu, Arin H. Ayanian, Jihane Ghorayeb, Charles Onyutha, Michael J. Lomas, Mai Helmy, Laura Martínez‐Buelvas, Aydın Bayad, Mehmet Karasu · 发表于：Journal of Environmental Psychology · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887 · 被引用次数：543 · 研究领域：Climate Change Communication and Perception、Environmental Education and Sustainability、Risk Perception and Management

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 environmental 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.