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Title: | Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries | Contributor(s): | Ogunbode, Charles Adedayo (author); Pallesen, Ståle (author); Böhm, Gisela (author); Doran, Rouven (author); Bhullar, Navjot (author) ; Aquino, Sibele (author); Marot, Tiago (author); Schermer, Julie Aitken (author); Wlodarczyk, Anna (author); Lu, Su (author); Jiang, Feng (author); Salmela-Aro, Katariina (author); Hanss, Daniel (author); Maran, Daniela Acquadro (author); Ardi, Rahkman (author); Chegeni, Razieh (author); Tahir, Hajra (author); Ghanbarian, Elahe (author); Park, Joonha (author); Tsubakita, Takashi (author); Tan, Chee-Seng (author); van den Broek, Karlijn L. (author); Chukwuorji, JohnBosco Chika (author); Ojewumi, Kehinde (author); Reyes, Marc Eric S (author); Lins, Samuel (author); Enea, Violeta (author); Volkodav, Tatiana (author); Sollar, Tomas (author); Navarro-Carrillo, Ginés (author); Torres-Marín, Jorge (author); Mbungu, Winfred (author); Onyutha, Charles (author); Lomas, Michael J (author) | Early Online Version: | 2021-02-16 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30791 | Abstract: | Climate change threatens mental health via increasing exposure to the social and economic disruptions created by extreme weather and large-scale climatic events, as well as through the anxiety associated with recognising the existential threat posed by the climate crisis. Considering the growing levels of climate change awareness across the world, negative emotions like anxiety and worry about climate-related risks are a potentially pervasive conduit for the adverse impacts of climate change on mental health. In this study, we examined how negative climate-related emotions relate to sleep and mental health among a diverse non-representative sample of individuals recruited from 25 countries, as well as a Norwegian nationally-representative sample. Overall, we found that negative climate-related emotions are positively associated with insomnia symptoms and negatively related to self-rated mental health in most countries. Our findings suggest that climate-related psychological stressors are significantly linked with mental health in many countries and draw attention to the need for cross-disciplinary research aimed at achieving rigorous empirical assessments of the unique challenge posed to mental health by negative emotional responses to climate change. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Current Psychology, p. 1-10 | Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1936-4733 1046-1310 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology 111714 Mental Health 170113 Social and Community Psychology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520302 Clinical psychology 420313 Mental health services 520501 Community psychology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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