Relationships between climate change distress, generalized anxiety, and climate-related symptoms of mental disorders

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dc.abstract.enBackground and Objective: We examined the possibility that reactions to climate change take two forms: distress, which may be adaptive, and symptoms of mental disorders, which may not be. Design and Method: In a national sample of Polish adults (n = 1133), we measured climate change distress (experiencing unpleasant emotions and feelings due to climate change), climate-related symptoms of mental disorders (e.g., problems sleeping and problems working and planning), generalized anxiety, and depression. Results: Zero-inflated Poisson regression analyses of the occurrence of climate-related symptoms of mental disorders found two latent classes: People who experienced symptoms of the disorder and those who did not. For all eight symptoms, climate change distress predicted membership in the latent class of people who experienced a symptom, whereas how often people in the non-zero latent class experienced each symptom was positively related to generalized anxiety but was not related to distress or depression. Conclusions: These results suggest that reactions to climate change take two forms. Some people do not experience climate change-related symptoms of mental disorders, and some do. People who experience symptoms have higher levels of climate change distress, and the frequency with which they experience these symptoms is determined by their dispositional, generalized anxiety.
dc.affiliationInstitute of Psychology
dc.affiliationWydziaƂ Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorNezlek, John
dc.contributor.authorMarzena CypryaƄska
dc.date.access2024-09-24
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T09:04:19Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T09:04:19Z
dc.date.created2024-03-14
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.issue5
dc.description.physical545-557
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2332628
dc.identifier.issn1061-5806
dc.identifier.issn1477-2205
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/877
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
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dc.subject.enclimate change distress
dc.subject.engeneralized anxiety
dc.subject.endepression
dc.subject.enanxiety
dc.subject.enmental disorder
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dc.titleRelationships between climate change distress, generalized anxiety, and climate-related symptoms of mental disorders
dc.title.journalAnxiety, Stress and Coping
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle