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Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale

The Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 13-item questionnaire for assessing climate anxiety (CA) as a psychological response to climate change. The CAS consists of two subscales, namely, cognitive impairment and functional impairment. This study aimed to validate the Polish version of the CAS. The samp...

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Autores principales: Larionow, Paweł, Sołtys, Michalina, Izdebski, Paweł, Mudło-Głagolska, Karolina, Golonka, Justyna, Demski, Maksym, Rosińska, Maja
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9130850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35645848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.870392
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author Larionow, Paweł
Sołtys, Michalina
Izdebski, Paweł
Mudło-Głagolska, Karolina
Golonka, Justyna
Demski, Maksym
Rosińska, Maja
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Sołtys, Michalina
Izdebski, Paweł
Mudło-Głagolska, Karolina
Golonka, Justyna
Demski, Maksym
Rosińska, Maja
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description The Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 13-item questionnaire for assessing climate anxiety (CA) as a psychological response to climate change. The CAS consists of two subscales, namely, cognitive impairment and functional impairment. This study aimed to validate the Polish version of the CAS. The sample included 603 respondents (344 females, 247 males, and 12 non-binary), aged 18–70 years (M = 25.32, SD = 9.59). Based on the exploratory factor analysis results, we proposed a 3-factor solution (i.e., intrusive symptoms, reflections on CA, and functional impairment), which seems to be theoretically more consistent with the content of the CAS statements. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that the original 2-factor solution and the 3-factor one had a satisfactory and a good fit to the data, respectively, as well as both were invariant across different gender, age, and educational level categories. Despite the fact that the 3-factor solution had the best-fit indices, we recommended to examine the CAS structure in different samples and use the overall CAS score in cross-cultural research. Cognitive and functional impairment subscales were positively correlated with personal experience of climate change, behavioral engagement, environmental identity, and environmental motives, but they were negatively correlated with climate change denial and sense of safety. The CAS subscales were correlated with depressive symptoms, but contrary to expectations, they were not associated with anxiety symptoms and any cognitive coping strategies. The Polish version of the CAS has satisfactory psychometric properties. Overall, we reported low CA levels in the Polish sample. Women and younger people experienced higher CA.
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spelling pubmed-91308502022-05-26 Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale Larionow, Paweł Sołtys, Michalina Izdebski, Paweł Mudło-Głagolska, Karolina Golonka, Justyna Demski, Maksym Rosińska, Maja Front Psychol Psychology The Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 13-item questionnaire for assessing climate anxiety (CA) as a psychological response to climate change. The CAS consists of two subscales, namely, cognitive impairment and functional impairment. This study aimed to validate the Polish version of the CAS. The sample included 603 respondents (344 females, 247 males, and 12 non-binary), aged 18–70 years (M = 25.32, SD = 9.59). Based on the exploratory factor analysis results, we proposed a 3-factor solution (i.e., intrusive symptoms, reflections on CA, and functional impairment), which seems to be theoretically more consistent with the content of the CAS statements. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that the original 2-factor solution and the 3-factor one had a satisfactory and a good fit to the data, respectively, as well as both were invariant across different gender, age, and educational level categories. Despite the fact that the 3-factor solution had the best-fit indices, we recommended to examine the CAS structure in different samples and use the overall CAS score in cross-cultural research. Cognitive and functional impairment subscales were positively correlated with personal experience of climate change, behavioral engagement, environmental identity, and environmental motives, but they were negatively correlated with climate change denial and sense of safety. The CAS subscales were correlated with depressive symptoms, but contrary to expectations, they were not associated with anxiety symptoms and any cognitive coping strategies. The Polish version of the CAS has satisfactory psychometric properties. Overall, we reported low CA levels in the Polish sample. Women and younger people experienced higher CA. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9130850/ /pubmed/35645848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.870392 Text en Copyright © 2022 Larionow, Sołtys, Izdebski, Mudło-Głagolska, Golonka, Demski and Rosińska. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Larionow, Paweł
Sołtys, Michalina
Izdebski, Paweł
Mudło-Głagolska, Karolina
Golonka, Justyna
Demski, Maksym
Rosińska, Maja
Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title_full Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title_fullStr Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title_full_unstemmed Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title_short Climate Change Anxiety Assessment: The Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Climate Anxiety Scale
title_sort climate change anxiety assessment: the psychometric properties of the polish version of the climate anxiety scale
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9130850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35645848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.870392
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