Climate anxiety and its association with health behaviours and generalized anxiety: An intensive longitudinal study
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- dc.contributor.author Williams, Marc O.
- dc.contributor.author Buekers, Joren
- dc.contributor.author Castaño Vinyals, Gemma
- dc.contributor.author Cid Ibeas, Rafael de
- dc.contributor.author Delgado Ortiz, Laura
- dc.contributor.author Espinosa Díaz, Ana
- dc.contributor.author García Aymerich, Judith
- dc.contributor.author Koch, Sarah
- dc.contributor.author Kogevinas, Manolis
- dc.contributor.author Viola, Marco
- dc.contributor.author Whitmarsh, Lorraine
- dc.contributor.author Chevance, Guillaume
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-12T06:36:33Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-12T06:36:33Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description.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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- dc.identifier.citation Williams MO, Buekers J, Castaño-Vinyals G, Cid R, Delgado-Ortiz L, Espinosa A, et al. Climate anxiety and its association with health behaviours and generalized anxiety: An intensive longitudinal study. Br J Health Psychol. 2024 Nov;29(4):1080-95. DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12746
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12746
- dc.identifier.issn 1359-107X
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68490
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Wiley
- dc.relation.ispartof Br J Health Psychol. 2024 Nov;29(4):1080-95
- dc.rights © 2024 The Author(s). British Journal of Health Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- dc.subject.keyword Climate anxiety
- dc.subject.keyword Climate distress
- dc.subject.keyword Generalized anxiety
- dc.subject.keyword Health behaviours
- dc.subject.keyword Intensive longitudinal study
- dc.subject.keyword Network analysis
- dc.title Climate anxiety and its association with health behaviours and generalized anxiety: An intensive longitudinal study
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