Understanding the spectrum of anxiety responses to climate change: A systematic review of the qualitative literature

C Soutar, APF Wand - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Knowledge about climate change may produce anxiety, but the concept of
climate change anxiety is poorly understood. The primary aim of this study was to …

An emotional road to sustainability: How affective science can support pro-climate action

CR Schneider, S van der Linden - Emotion Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Although emotions play a crucial role in understanding and encouraging sustainable
behavior and decision-making, many open questions currently remain unanswered. In this …

Toward a taxonomy of climate emotions

P Pihkala - Frontiers in climate, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in
profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and …

Eco-anxiety and environmental education

P Pihkala - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Anxiety and distress about the ecological crisis seems to be a rapidly growing phenomenon.
This article analyzes the challenges and possibilities posed by such “eco-anxiety” for …

[HTML][HTML] Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action

J Sangervo, KM Jylhä, P Pihkala - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate anxiety is a phenomenon which raises growing attention. Based on a national
survey of climate-related feelings and behaviors (N= 2070) in Finland, we analyzed and …

On climate anxiety and the threat it may pose to daily life functioning and adaptation: A study among European and African French-speaking participants

A Heeren, C Mouguiama-Daouda, A Contreras - Climatic change, 2022 - Springer
The notion of climate anxiety has gained traction in the last years. Yet uncertainty remains
regarding the variations of climate anxiety across demographic characteristics (eg, gender …

Psychological and emotional responses to climate change among young people worldwide: Differences associated with gender, age, and country

SD Clayton, P Pihkala, B Wray, E Marks - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent research has described concern and anxiety about climate change, especially
among young people, but limited data are available looking at the responses of adolescents …

[HTML][HTML] The strength and content of climate anger

T Gregersen, G Andersen, E Tvinnereim - Global Environmental Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate-related anger is present in Greta Thunberg's speeches and the acts of Extinction
Rebellion, but also in the rise of movements protesting climate policies, such as the Yellow …

Bearing worlds: Learning to live-with climate change

B Verlie - Environmental Education Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores the emotional experiences of some undergraduate sustainability
students in a semester long course on climate change. Specifically, it attends to experiences …

Ecological sorrow: Types of grief and loss in ecological grief

P Pihkala - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability
efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between …