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Psychological research and global climate change

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Clayton, Susan, Devine-Wright, Patrick, Stern, Paul C., Whitmarsh, Lorraine, Carrico, Amanda, Steg, Linda, Swim, Janet, Bonnes, Mirilia·2015·Nature Climate Change

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  • Negative events provoke high job insecurity and other psychological issues.

    “as well as prolonged emotional stress, inevitably provoking high job insecurity (51) and other psychological issues (104).”
  • The theoretical relationship between climate change and mental health risk is compelling.

    “the theoretical relationship between climate change and mental health risk is compelling (2, 21).”
  • Pre-disaster psychosocial phenomena include heightened anxiety levels, feelings of impending doom, hopelessness, and fatalism triggered by approaching extreme events or associated weather warnings, and may be amplified by perceived risk of subacute environmental changes like rising temperatures and episodic droughts.

    “Such phenomena include, for example, heightened anxiety levels, feelings of impending doom, hopelessness, and fatalism that can be triggered by approaching extreme events or associated weather warnings; and which may also be amplified due to the perceived risk of subacute, environmental changes like rising temperatures and episodic droughts [13, 20, 22].”

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Authors
Clayton, S., Devine-Wright, P., Stern, P. C., Whitmarsh, L., Carrico, A., Steg, L., Swim, J., & Bonnes, M.
Affiliations
  • College of Wooster (US)
  • National Academy of Sciences (US)
  • Cardiff University (GB)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Corresponding author
Clayton, Susan
Venue
Nature Climate Change
Published
2015-06-24
Volume
5
Issue
7
Pages
640-646
ISSN
  • 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
  • 1758-6798
OpenAlex
W1882847140
Cited by
601
References
101
Citations by year
2026: 44 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 80 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 60 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 3
FWCI
121.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
National Science Foundation (1052875)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
Keywords
climate change, human behavior, motivation, climate change perception, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, household behavior, climate policy

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