Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution

Unveiling the relationships between eco-anxiety, psychological symptoms and anthropocentric narcissism: The psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Hogg eco-anxiety scale

“…The intercorrelations between the HEAS-13 subscales were mostly medium, which implies that the presence of a specific eco-anxiety symptom does not necessarily correspond to the same degree of increase in another. These results are consistent with the findings of Hogg et al (2021) as well as those of the researchers who adapted the scale to Italian (Rocchi et al, 2023) and German (Heinzel et al, 2023), in that different profiles may emerge as dimensions of eco-anxiety coexist.…”

“…Our results also revealed that women's mean scores were significantly higher than men's in "Affective Symptoms" and "Anxiety about personal impact," aligning precisely with the results found recently in the Italian sample (Rocchi et al, 2023). This is consistent with Rocchi et al (2023) that women may be more vulnerable to the symptoms of eco-anxiety.…”

“…This is specifically important given that most of the studies regarding the mental health impacts of eco-anxiety have been conducted in developed countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Italy and Germany (e.g. Hogg et al, 2021Hogg et al, , 2023Stewart, 2021;Heinzel et al, 2023;Rocchi et al, 2023) and that this trend excludes a significant percentage of the population living in developing (or under-developed) countries, such as Turkey, who may be disproportionately impacted by the environmental crisis (see APA, 2023; see also Rosa et al, 2021;Aruta and Guinto, 2022).…”

“…This research was based on five hypotheses, the first being that the four-factor structure of the original English version of the HEAS-13 would be psychometrically supported in the Turkish sample similar to its other cultural adaptations (e.g. Heinzel et al, 2023;Rocchi et al, 2023). Anticipating that the construct of ecoanxiety remains consistent in structure and meaning across genders (see Putnick and Bornstein, 2016), our second hypothesis posited that the HEAS-13 would exhibit invariance between genders.…”

“…Because the HEAS-13 is a psychometrically validated scale that captures the broad concept of eco-anxiety, researchers have already adapted it to other cultures, such as Italian (Innocenti et al, 2023;Rocchi et al, 2023) and German (Heinzel et al, 2023). In these adaptations, the original four-factorial model has been shown to be valid and reliable, except in the study conducted by Innocenti et al (2023), which retained a one-factor structure.…”