Understanding coping with the climate crisis: an experimental study with young people on agency and mental health.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2024.2388255

Julia Asbrand, Nora Spirkl, Gerhard Reese, Lina Spangenberg, Naomi Shibata, Nele Dippel

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Abstract

Background: While the impact of climate change on mental health, especially in young people, has been acknowledged, underlying mechanisms of this relation remain elusive. Based on research on active coping, we explored effects of agency on anxiety and coping in an experimental design. We further examined the relation between mental health (i.e., psychopathology, depressiveness, trait anxiety), trait factors (i.e., climate distress, intolerance of uncertainty, trait coping), state anxiety and coping with climate distress.

Methods: 244 participants (15-25 years) watched a climate anxiety inducing video, followed by an agency manipulation (high agency vs. low agency vs. control). Trait mental health, intolerance of uncertainty, and climate distress and coping were examined as predictors of state anxiety and coping.

Results: State anxiety decreased in the high agency and control conditions, but not in the low agency condition. High agency led to increased meaning-focused coping and low agency to decreased meaning- and problem-focused coping. Trait mental health, problem-focused, and meaning-focused coping strategies each predicted their respective state counterparts. Emotion-focused coping was further predicted by all trait measures.

Conclusion: The findings suggest a risk of low agency communication due to the lack of arousal decrease and lack of using functional coping in young people.

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了解如何应对气候危机：一项针对年轻人的机构和心理健康实验研究。

背景：虽然气候变化对心理健康，尤其是对年轻人的心理健康的影响已经得到承认，但这种关系的内在机制仍然难以捉摸。基于对积极应对的研究，我们在实验设计中探讨了机构对焦虑和应对的影响。我们进一步研究了心理健康（即精神病理学、抑郁、特质焦虑）、特质因素（即气候困扰、不确定性不容忍、特质应对）、状态焦虑和应对气候困扰之间的关系。方法：244 名参与者（15-25 岁）观看了一段诱发气候焦虑的视频，随后进行了代理操作（高代理与低代理对比、对照）。研究人员对特质心理健康、对不确定性的不容忍度以及气候困扰和应对方法进行了研究，并将其作为预测状态焦虑和应对方法的因素：结果：在高代理和控制条件下，状态焦虑减少了，但在低代理条件下没有减少。高代理导致以意义为中心的应对方式增加，而低代理则导致以意义和问题为中心的应对方式减少。特质心理健康、以问题为中心和以意义为中心的应对策略分别预测了各自的对应状态。所有的特质测量都能进一步预测以情感为重点的应对策略：结论：研究结果表明，由于年轻人的唤醒程度没有降低，也没有使用功能性应对方法，因此存在低代理沟通的风险。

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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.