A network approach to climate change anxiety and its key related features

Heeren, Alexandre; Mouguiama-Daouda, Camille; McNally, Richard J.

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102625

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“…The present study showed a signi cant negative correlation between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior, i.e., the more pronounced the climate change anxiety perceived by an individual, the less inclined they are to engage in pro-environmental behaviors. Consistent with the research results of representative samples from eight countries surveyed by Heeren et al [23], participants with high levels of climate change anxiety exhibit less pro-environmental behavior. The research results indicate that excessive climate change anxiety may inhibit people from translating their concerns into practical actions [22], a phenomenon also known as ecological paralysis.…”

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The relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior in adolescents: the mediating role of future self-continuity and the moderating role of green self-efficacy

Qin,

Wu,

et al. 2024

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Background Climate change is seriously affecting human survival and development, and the anxiety caused by it is becoming increasingly prominent. How to alleviate people's climate change anxiety, improve the ecological environment, and promote the formation of green lifestyles among people, especially young people, is an important topic worth exploring. This study examined the relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environment behaviors and the underlying psychological mechanism in the adolescents based on the proposed moderated mediation model. Methods This study explored the crucial role of future self-continuity between climate change anxiety (CCA) and pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) in adolescents and examined the moderating role of green self-efficacy. In this study, 1851 middle school students in four grades of junior high school and senior high school were selected for the questionnaire survey. Results The results showed that (1) in both middle and high school grades, there was a significant negative correlation between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behaviors; future self-continuity was significantly positively correlated with pro-environmental behaviors; green self-efficacy was negatively correlated with climate change anxiety and positively correlated with pro-environmental behaviors; (2) climate change anxiety negatively predicted pro-environmental behaviors, and compared with middle school grades, high school grade adolescents' climate change anxiety was significantly predicted pro-environmental behaviors. Future self-continuity mediated the relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behaviors in both grades. (3) Green self-efficacy moderated the second half of the mediating pathway among middle school-aged adolescents. In contrast, the moderating effect of green self-efficacy was not significant in high school grades. Future self-continuity had a greater impact on pro-environmental behaviors in the high green self-efficacy group compared to the low green self-efficacy group. Conclusion The results of this study suggest that there is a moderated mediation model between adolescent climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behaviors, with different mediating and moderating effects among adolescents in various grade levels. This has important implications for targeting the alleviation of adolescent climate anxiety and fostering their pro-environmental behaviors.

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The relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior in adolescents: the mediating role of future self-continuity and the moderating role of green self-efficacy

Qin,

Wu,

et al. 2024

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“…With an exploratory objective, we hereby combined original and replication samples to yield a more comprehensive insight. We applied a two-step method to estimate the network structure with directions (Heeren et al, 2023). Initially, we implemented a 10,000 iterations nonparametric bootstrapping method to estimate the importance of edges, and edges were retained according to their Bayesian Gaussian equivalence (BGe) score by Scutari and Nagarajan's (2013) optimal cut-point approach.…”

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“…For instance, if a DAG shows a consistent arrow from A to B, we might infer that A influences B, but not necessarily the other way around. This method is particularly valuable in psychological research (e.g., Heeren et al, 2023;Hunt et al, 2023;Kunicki et al, 2023). These approaches are particularly apt for our research objectives, offering a visually and mathematically rich representation of the interplays among variables (Baumert et al, 2017(Baumert et al, , 2019Cramer et al, 2012).…”

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Unpacking Interplays Between Competitiveness, Cooperativeness, and Social Comparison Orientation: A Network Psychometric Approach and Replication

Meng,

Zhong,

王舒静

et al. 2023

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ObjectiveInterpersonal coopetition is characterized as simultaneously competing and cooperating towards the same social target. Growing evidence has suggested that competition and cooperation at the interpersonal level involve social comparison. The current study aimed to model the interplay between competitiveness, cooperativeness, and social comparison orientation (SCO).MethodWe implemented graphical Gaussian models across facet- and item-level to characterize the network structure and influential nodes using cross-sectional data from 1073 Chinese participants. We then estimated a directed acyclic graph to examine the probabilistic dependencies among the facets. In addition, we compare the gender differences of the facet-level GGMs.ResultsThe converging evidence demonstrates the significance of Surpassing and Willingness in the interpersonal coopetition network, with Ability facet of SCO playing a potential hub bridging competitiveness and cooperativeness. Furthermore, we found significant gender effects on competitiveness and cooperativeness and the relationship between their facets.ConclusionsThese findings provide a first coherent view of the interpersonal coopetition network and comprehensive insight into the symbiosis of competitiveness and cooperativeness within the framework of social comparison. Surpassing and Willingness are promising targets for preventing hypercompetition and require further evaluation.

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“…Like general anxiety, CCA is closely linked to feelings of fear and worry but also involves hopelessness and anger, with close connections with frustration, despair, guilt, shame, and grief ( Clayton, 2020 ; Clayton and Karazsia, 2020 ; Pihkala, 2020 ; Verplanken et al, 2020 ). There is still no precise classification of what is meant by “anxiety” in this context ( Pihkala, 2020 ); Coffey et al (2021) described more than ten distinct operationalizations of this phenomenon, suggesting an evident lack of consensus ( Heeren et al, 2023 ). Regardless, many studies demonstrate the relationship between GAD-related symptoms and CCA ( Materia, 2016 ; Innocenti et al, 2021 ; Whitmarsh et al, 2022 ; Asgarizadeh et al, 2023 ; Schwartz et al, 2023 ).…”

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“…Accordingly, several studies demonstrated the potentiality of CCA in motivating action ( Heeren et al, 2023 ). Indeed, through a mediation model, Innocenti et al (2023) demonstrated that the CCA cognitive impairment subdimension simultaneously has an opposite effect on pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs), directly encouraging PEBs but also negatively influencing PEBs through self-efficacy levels, possibly leading to eco-paralysis.…”

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Climate change anxiety, fear, and intention to act

von Gal,

Fabiani,

Piccardi

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Climate change anxiety (CCA) is an emerging yet not clearly defined construct. Here, we examine the relationship between CCA and climate change-related fear in response to messages differently framing uncertainty and anticipation concerning climate change, exploring how the former differs from general anxiety measures. To this purpose, young and healthy volunteers were assigned to three different framing conditions. Their emotional responses as well as eco-emotions and beliefs about climate change were collected. By employing a Bayesian approach, we found that framing the consequences of climate change effectively induces heightened fear and that CCA strongly predicted fear levels, while general anxiety measures did not. Overall, these results reflect CCA’s unique and specific nature in influencing climate change-related fear. Interestingly, we found fear to predict intention scores only following the framings that did not effectively induce action intentions, consistent with prior findings on fear without efficacy framing. Instead, reading about the negative consequences motivated action the most. Following this framing, we found that eco-anger, instead of fear, consistently predicted intentions to engage in climate action. These results emphasize the complex interplay between CCA, eco-emotions, efficacy, and behavioral engagement.

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A network approach to climate change anxiety and its key related features

Cited by 25 publications

References 72 publications

The relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior in adolescents: the mediating role of future self-continuity and the moderating role of green self-efficacy

The relationship between climate change anxiety and pro-environmental behavior in adolescents: the mediating role of future self-continuity and the moderating role of green self-efficacy

Unpacking Interplays Between Competitiveness, Cooperativeness, and Social Comparison Orientation: A Network Psychometric Approach and Replication

Climate change anxiety, fear, and intention to act

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