Orrù Luisa, Taccini Federica, Mannarini Stefania
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy.
Center for Intervention and Research on Family Studies-CIRF-Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Mar 21;14(3):255. doi: 10.3390/bs14030255.
The climate change emergency is one of the most important challenges of our time, and its impact on mental health has been evident for years. It is very important for clinicians to delve deeper into these manifestations. There are a wide variety of constructs, symptoms, and scales to measure the impact of climate change on mental health. Eco-anxiety is one of the constructs that has specifically emerged, in association with worry, about the future. In mental health studies, it is important to explore the relationship between eco-anxiety and emotion regulation and how much this relationship leads to worry about the future in order to be able to offer clinical intervention recommendations. Indeed, the hypothesis of this study is that it is possible to develop worries about the future when symptoms of eco-anxiety and a poor ability to regulate emotions are present. Particularly, emotion dysregulation could increase eco-anxiety symptoms and generate worries about one's own future. For this reason, we have chosen to explore the relationships between these three constructs with the use of a mediation analysis. For this research, 351 participants were recruited in Italy. The proposed mediation model highlighted the findings that emotion dysregulation was positively related with eco-anxiety and that eco-anxiety predicts worry about the future. An association between emotion dysregulation and worry about the future was present. Eco-anxiety appeared to be an important mediator between emotional dysregulation and worry about the future. Emotion regulation could play a pivotal role in addressing concerns about the future. These findings could pave the way for exploring new research avenues and potential clinical interventions.
气候变化紧急情况是我们这个时代最重要的挑战之一，其对心理健康的影响多年来一直很明显。临床医生深入研究这些表现非常重要。有各种各样的概念、症状和量表来衡量气候变化对心理健康的影响。生态焦虑是特别出现的概念之一，与对未来的担忧有关。在心理健康研究中，探索生态焦虑与情绪调节之间的关系以及这种关系在多大程度上导致对未来的担忧，以便能够提供临床干预建议，这一点很重要。事实上，本研究的假设是，当存在生态焦虑症状和情绪调节能力差时，有可能产生对未来的担忧。特别是，情绪失调可能会增加生态焦虑症状，并引发对自己未来的担忧。出于这个原因，我们选择使用中介分析来探索这三个概念之间的关系。在这项研究中，在意大利招募了351名参与者。所提出的中介模型突出了以下发现：情绪失调与生态焦虑呈正相关，生态焦虑预测对未来的担忧。情绪失调与对未来的担忧之间存在关联。生态焦虑似乎是情绪失调与对未来的担忧之间的重要中介。情绪调节可能在解决对未来的担忧方面发挥关键作用。这些发现可能为探索新的研究途径和潜在的临床干预铺平道路。
