A network approach to climate change anxiety and its key related features.
J Anxiety Disord
; 93: 102625, 2023 01.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36030121
ABSTRACT
Research has pointed to startling worldwide rates of people reporting considerable anxiety vis-à-vis climate change. Yet, uncertainties remain regarding how climate anxiety's cognitive-emotional features and daily life functional impairments interact with one another and with climate change experience, pro-environmental behaviors, and general worry. In this study, we apply network analyses to examine the associations among these variables in an international community sample (n = 874). We computed two network models, a graphical Gaussian model to explore network structure, potential communities, and influential nodes, and a directed acyclic graph to examine the probabilistic dependencies among the variables. Both network models pointed to the cognitive-emotional features of climate anxiety as a potential hub bridging general worry, the experience of climate change, pro-environmental behaviors, and the functional impairments associated with climate anxiety. Our findings offer data-driven clues for the field's larger quest to establish the foundations of climate anxiety.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Anxiety
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Climate Change
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Anxiety Disord
Journal subject:
PSIQUIATRIA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article