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

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-27 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2024.2332628

John B Nezlek, Marzena Cypryańska

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Abstract

Background 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.

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气候变化困扰、普遍焦虑和与气候相关的精神障碍症状之间的关系。

背景和目的：我们研究了对气候变化的反应有两种形式的可能性：一种是痛苦（可能是适应性的），另一种是精神障碍症状（可能不是适应性的）：在波兰成年人（n = 1133）的全国样本中，我们测量了气候变化困扰（因气候变化而体验到不愉快的情绪和感受）、与气候相关的精神障碍症状（如睡眠问题、工作和计划问题）、普遍焦虑和抑郁：对出现与气候相关的精神障碍症状的零膨胀泊松回归分析发现了两个潜在类别：出现精神障碍症状的人和没有出现精神障碍症状的人。在所有八种症状中，气候变化带来的痛苦预示着经历过某一症状的潜在人群的成员资格，而非零潜在人群经历每种症状的频率与广泛焦虑呈正相关，但与痛苦或抑郁无关：这些结果表明，对气候变化的反应有两种形式。结论：这些结果表明，对气候变化的反应有两种形式。有些人不会出现与气候变化相关的精神障碍症状，有些人则会。出现症状的人有较高程度的气候变化困扰，而他们出现这些症状的频率取决于他们的倾向性和广泛焦虑。

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.