CA Ogunbode
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
Authors
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
Dr Michael Lomas M.Lomas@salford.ac.uk
Head of Psychology
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 |
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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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