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Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health : cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries

Ogunbode, CA; Pallesen, S; Böhm, G; Doran, R; Bhullar, N; Aquino, S; Marot, T; Schermer, JA; Wlodarczyk, A; Lu, S; Jiang, F; Salmela-Aro, K; Hanss, D; Maran, DA; Ardi, R; Chegeni, R; Tahir, H; Ghanbarian, E; Park, J; Tsubakita, T; Tan, C-S; van den Broek, KL; Chukwuorji, JBC; Ojewumi, K; Reyes, MES; Lins, S; Enea, V; Volkodav, T; Sollar, T; Navarro-Carrillo, G; Torres-Marín, J; Mbungu, W; Onyutha, C; Lomas, M

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Authors

CA Ogunbode

S Pallesen

G Böhm

R Doran

N Bhullar

S Aquino

T Marot

JA Schermer

A Wlodarczyk

S Lu

F Jiang

K Salmela-Aro

D Hanss

DA Maran

R Ardi

R Chegeni

H Tahir

E Ghanbarian

J Park

T Tsubakita

C-S Tan

KL van den Broek

JBC Chukwuorji

K Ojewumi

MES Reyes

S Lins

V Enea

T Volkodav

T Sollar

G Navarro-Carrillo

J Torres-Marín

W Mbungu

C Onyutha



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.

Citation

Ogunbode, C., Pallesen, S., Böhm, G., Doran, R., Bhullar, N., Aquino, S., …Lomas, M. (2021). Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health : cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 14, 2021
Online Publication Date Feb 16, 2021
Publication Date Feb 16, 2021
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2021
Publicly Available Date Apr 1, 2021
Journal Current Psychology
Print ISSN 1046-1310
Electronic ISSN 1936-4733
Publisher Springer Verlag
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4
Related Public URLs http://link.springer.com/journal/12144

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