Climate anxiety and its association with health behaviours and generalized anxiety: An intensive longitudinal study

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

British Journal of Health Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI:10.1111/bjhp.12746

Marc O. Williams, Joren Buekers, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Rafael de Cid, Laura Delgado-Ortiz, Ana Espinosa, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Sarah Koch, Manolis Kogevinas, Marco Viola, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Guillaume Chevance

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Abstract

Objectives

The United Nations recognize the importance of balancing the needs of people and the planetary systems on which human health relies. This paper investigates the role that climate change has on human health via its influence on climate anxiety.

Design

We conducted an intensive longitudinal study.

Methods

Participants reported levels of climate anxiety, generalized anxiety and an array of health behaviours at 20 consecutive time points, 2 weeks apart.

Results

A network analysis shows climate anxiety and generalized anxiety not to covary, and higher levels of climate anxiety not to covary with health behaviours, except for higher levels of alcohol consumption at the within-participant level. Generalized anxiety showed completely distinct patterns of covariation with health behaviours compared with climate anxiety.

Conclusions

Our findings imply that climate anxiety, as conceptualized and measured in the current study, is not in itself functionally impairing in terms of associations with unhealthy behaviours, and is distinct from generalized anxiety. The results also imply that interventions to induce anxiety about the climate might not always have significant impacts on health and well-being.

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British Journal of Health Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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14.10

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1.30%

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期刊介绍： The focus of the British Journal of Health Psychology is to publish original research on various aspects of psychology that are related to health, health-related behavior, and illness throughout a person's life. The journal specifically seeks articles that are based on health psychology theory or discuss theoretical matters within the field.