School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
J Health Commun. 2024 Jun 3;29(sup1):45-56. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2024.2354370. Epub 2024 May 22.
Climate change anxiety among young people of college age has become a prevalent topic, with debate on whether climate change anxiety is maladaptive or can motivate climate change action. Using a cross-sectional survey of 440 college students, the study investigated the relationships between college students' climate anxiety, climate change media exposure, efficacy beliefs, and pro-environmental intentions. The findings revealed among other things, that climate anxiety had a significant curvilinear relationship with pro-environmental intentions with moderate anxiety predicting positive intentions and higher levels of anxiety were associated with negative intentions. Media exposure also positively predicted increased climate anxiety. Implications for climate change mitigation are discussed.
气候变化焦虑在大学生群体中已成为一个普遍的话题，对于气候变化焦虑是否适应不良或能否激发应对气候变化的行动，人们对此存在争议。本研究使用 440 名大学生的横断面调查，探讨了大学生的气候变化焦虑、气候变化媒体接触、效能信念与亲环境意愿之间的关系。研究结果表明，气候变化焦虑与亲环境意愿呈显著的曲线关系，适度的焦虑预测积极的意愿，而更高水平的焦虑与消极的意愿相关。媒体接触也正向预测了气候变化焦虑的增加。讨论了气候变化缓解的意义。
