ArticleBMJ mental health2025
Understanding climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress: A survey of residents in a high-risk California county during wildfire season.
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- The Mental Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Mental health research for a world in climate crisis.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
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backgroundWith the increasing prevalence of climate-related disasters, psychological responses, including climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress, have received heightened attention.
objectiveWe investigate the correlates of climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress, as well as the nature of these psychological responses.
methodsAt the start of the annual fire season (June to August 2023), we recruited a county-representative sample of n=813 residents of Lake County, in Northern California, to complete an anonymous online survey. Multiple regression analyses identified correlates of climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress and explored how anxiety and stress were associated with disaster preparedness.
findingsClimate change anxiety, assessed via its cognitive-emotional impairment (odds ratio (OR)
conclusionsPrior experiences with climate disasters could explain people's psychological responses to climate change. These responses could be temporally appropriate and functionally adaptive, given the immediacy of a potential fire. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Climate change anxiety and anticipatory climate disaster stress should not be oversimplified as typical clinical symptoms because their presence might motivate adaptive self-protective behaviours in the face of an upcoming disaster.
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