ArticleBMC psychology2024
Mental health during ecological crisis: translating and validating the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale for Argentinian and Spanish populations.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis on the relationship of eco-emotions on the mental health and wellbeing of young adults.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Pooled it
- [Climate crisis and mental health: a scoping review eco-anxiety in latinamerican adults].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Assessing the Presence of Eco-Anxiety in the General Population: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Examining the relationships between eco-anxiety, sociodemographic factors, experience of climate events, pro-environmental behaviours, and life satisfaction in young adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the German Hogg Eco-Anxiety scale and its associations with psychological distress, self-efficacy and social support.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Climate change anxiety in the scientific community: an exploratory study with Chilean climate change-related scholars.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Eco-anxiety or simply eco-worry? Incremental validity study in a representative Spanish sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The psychological cost of climate change: anxiety among adolescents and young adults - a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Measuring Eco-Anxiety with the Polish Version of the 13-Item Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS-13): Latent Structure, Correlates, and Psychometric Performance.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Assessing eco-anxiety across the lifespan: A systematic review of current global scales.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundEco-anxiety is increasingly recognized as a shared experience by many people internationally, encompassing fear of environmental catastrophe and anxiety about ecological crises. Despite its importance in the context of the changing climate, measures for this construct are still being developed in languages other than English.
methodsTo contribute to global eco-anxiety research, we translated the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS) into Spanish, creating the HEAS-SP. We validated this measure in samples from both Argentina (n = 990) and Spain (n = 548), performing measurement invariance and confirmatory factor analyses. Internal consistency of the scale and score stability over time were investigated through reliability analyses. Differences in eco-anxiety across sociodemographic variables were explored through Student's t-tests and Pearson's r tests.
resultsThe four-factor model of the HEAS-SP comprising affective and behavioural symptoms, rumination, and anxiety about personal impact demonstrated excellent model fit. We found good internal consistency for each subscale, and established measurement invariance between Spanish and Argentine samples, as well as across genders and participants' age. Spanish participants reported higher scores on the affective symptoms and personal impact anxiety factors compared to the Argentinian sample. Also, men reported lower levels than women on the subscales of affective symptoms, rumination, and personal impact anxiety. It was found that the relationship between both age and personal impact anxiety and age and affective symptoms varies significantly depending on the gender of the individuals. Younger participants tended to report higher scores on most dimensions of eco-anxiety.
conclusionsThese findings enhance the global initiative to investigate, explore and therefore comprehend eco-anxiety by introducing the first valid and reliable Spanish-language version of this psychometric instrument for its use within Spanish and Argentinian populations. This study augments the body of evidence supporting the robust psychometric properties of the HEAS, as demonstrated in prior validations for Australian, Turkish, Portuguese, German, French, and Italian populations.
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