Sohr S
Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin.
Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr. 1994 Jul-Aug;43(6):203-8.
The article reports results from a second follow-up survey (N = 541) on existential anxieties with a sample from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1992 who had first been questionned in 1985 when their ages were between 8 and 20 years. The report focuses on data gathered with a new scale on 'ecological hopelessness'. The new scale is comprised of 10 items and shows high reliability. The results reveal that every third youth in the sample articulates ecological hopelessness. Analyses of variance show that there is a strong gender difference: Girls/women express more hopelessness than boys/men, correlations and regression analyses show a negative relation between hopelessness and mental health and a positive relation between hopelessness and attempted coping. It is probable that hopelessness will expand if environmental destruction becomes more intensive. Thus, psychology as a part of humanities is obliged to not only point to the dangerous consequences of hopeless per se, but also to engage in the prevention of ecological hopelessness.
本文报道了1992年对来自德意志联邦共和国的样本进行的关于存在焦虑的第二次跟踪调查（N = 541）的结果，这些样本在1985年首次接受调查，当时他们的年龄在8至20岁之间。该报告重点关注通过一个新的“生态绝望”量表收集的数据。这个新量表由10个项目组成，具有很高的信度。结果显示，样本中每三个年轻人中就有一个表达了生态绝望。方差分析表明存在强烈的性别差异：女孩/女性比男孩/男性表达出更多的绝望，相关性和回归分析显示绝望与心理健康呈负相关，与尝试应对呈正相关。如果环境破坏变得更加严重，绝望很可能会加剧。因此，作为人文学科一部分的心理学不仅有义务指出绝望本身的危险后果，还应致力于预防生态绝望。
