Development and validation of the domain-specific climate change distress scale

IF 6.1 1区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102392
Martin Weiß , Julian Gutzeit , Grit Hein
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Climate change is one of, if not the greatest, global challenges of this century, as its consequences can have a wide range of impacts on society, the environment, and the personal lives of many individuals. Consequently, many people experience severe psychological distress in the form of fears, anxieties, or worries, elicited by one, some, or all these different consequences. Thus, climate change distress can be conceptualized as a domain-specific construct. We conducted a literature review and a qualitative lay survey to develop the Domain-Specific Climate Change Distress Scale (DCCDS), with a generic climate change distress domain and six sub-domains (ecology, existence, food supply, future generations, society, and wealth). In the first study, we validated this structure with a bifactor-(S-1) model and refined the scale according to its psychometric properties. In a second study, we showed convergent and discriminant validity with the respective constructs. In a third study, we demonstrated the external validity of the scale by investigating the relation of its sub-domains to fear reactions to real-life news excerpts and willingness to donate to different charity organizations. Each sub-domain showed incremental validity over the generic domain. The scale had adequate psychometric properties and stability over three measurement timepoints in German gender-balanced convenience samples. We thus conclude that the domain-specific conceptualization of climate change distress yields important diagnostic benefits and could provide important insights into the future handling of climate change distress on a political, socio-cultural, and personal level.

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开发和验证特定领域气候变化困扰量表
气候变化即使不是本世纪最大的全球性挑战,也是其中之一,因为其后果会对社会、环境和许多人的个人生活产生广泛的影响。因此,许多人都会因其中一种、几种或所有这些不同的后果而产生恐惧、焦虑或忧虑等形式的严重心理困扰。因此,气候变化困扰可以被概念化为一个特定领域的概念。我们通过文献综述和定性非专业调查,编制了特定领域气候变化苦恼量表(DCCDS),其中包括一个通用气候变化苦恼领域和六个子领域(生态、生存、食品供应、后代、社会和财富)。在第一项研究中,我们利用双因素(S-1)模型验证了这一结构,并根据其心理测量特性对量表进行了改进。在第二项研究中,我们证明了量表与相应结构的收敛性和判别性。在第三项研究中,我们通过调查量表各子领域与对真实新闻节选的恐惧反应和对不同慈善组织的捐赠意愿之间的关系,证明了量表的外部效度。每个子领域的效度都高于通用领域。在德国性别平衡的方便样本中,该量表在三个测量时间点上具有充分的心理测量特性和稳定性。因此,我们得出结论认为,气候变化困扰的特定领域概念化具有重要的诊断优势,可为今后在政治、社会文化和个人层面处理气候变化困扰提供重要的见解。
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审稿时长
62 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Environmental Psychology is the premier journal in the field, serving individuals in a wide range of disciplines who have an interest in the scientific study of the transactions and interrelationships between people and their surroundings (including built, social, natural and virtual environments, the use and abuse of nature and natural resources, and sustainability-related behavior). The journal publishes internationally contributed empirical studies and reviews of research on these topics that advance new insights. As an important forum for the field, the journal publishes some of the most influential papers in the discipline that reflect the scientific development of environmental psychology. Contributions on theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of all human-environment interactions are welcome, along with innovative or interdisciplinary approaches that have a psychological emphasis. Research areas include: •Psychological and behavioral aspects of people and nature •Cognitive mapping, spatial cognition and wayfinding •Ecological consequences of human actions •Theories of place, place attachment, and place identity •Environmental risks and hazards: perception, behavior, and management •Perception and evaluation of buildings and natural landscapes •Effects of physical and natural settings on human cognition and health •Theories of proenvironmental behavior, norms, attitudes, and personality •Psychology of sustainability and climate change •Psychological aspects of resource management and crises •Social use of space: crowding, privacy, territoriality, personal space •Design of, and experiences related to, the physical aspects of workplaces, schools, residences, public buildings and public space
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