Center for Climate Action and Social Transformations, Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland.
Department of Psychological Sciences, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2024 Sep;37(5):545-557. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2332628. Epub 2024 Mar 27.
We examined the possibility that reactions to climate change take two forms: distress, which may be adaptive, and symptoms of mental disorders, which may not be.
In a national sample of Polish adults ( = 1133), we measured climate change distress (experiencing unpleasant emotions and feelings due to climate change), climate-related symptoms of mental disorders (e.g., problems sleeping and problems working and planning), generalized anxiety, and depression.
Zero-inflated Poisson regression analyses of the occurrence of climate-related symptoms of mental disorders found two latent classes: People who experienced symptoms of the disorder and those who did not. For all eight symptoms, climate change distress predicted membership in the latent class of people who experienced a symptom, whereas how often people in the non-zero latent class experienced each symptom was positively related to generalized anxiety but was not related to distress or depression.
These results suggest that reactions to climate change take two forms. Some people do not experience climate change-related symptoms of mental disorders, and some do. People who experience symptoms have higher levels of climate change distress, and the frequency with which they experience these symptoms is determined by their dispositional, generalized anxiety.
我们研究了气候变化可能有两种反应形式：一种是适应不良的痛苦，另一种是可能适应不良的精神障碍症状。
在一项对波兰成年人的全国性样本（n=1133）中，我们测量了气候变化痛苦（由于气候变化而产生不愉快的情绪和感觉）、与气候相关的精神障碍症状（例如，睡眠问题、工作和计划问题）、广泛性焦虑和抑郁。
对精神障碍相关气候症状发生的零膨胀泊松回归分析发现了两个潜在类别：经历该障碍症状的人和没有经历症状的人。对于所有八个症状，气候变化痛苦都预示着属于经历症状的潜在类别，而在非零潜在类别中的人经历每种症状的频率与广泛性焦虑呈正相关，但与痛苦或抑郁无关。
这些结果表明，对气候变化的反应有两种形式。一些人没有经历与气候变化相关的精神障碍症状，而另一些人则经历了。经历症状的人具有更高水平的气候变化痛苦，他们经历这些症状的频率取决于他们的特质性、广泛性焦虑。
