ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Exploring eco-anxiety in Italian adolescents: psychometric evaluation of the Climate Change Anxiety Scale and theoretical insights into the association with pro-environmental attitudes.
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- Scoping review: climate change-related anxiety and worry in children, adolescents, and young adults.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Review
- Climate anxiety in children and young people: A systematic review of prevalence and measurement methods.The journal of climate change and healthReview
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Abstract
Introduction: Climate change significantly impacts the health and future of adolescents, yet they have limited ability to prevent its effects, leaving them especially vulnerable to climate anxiety. The present study aims to first explore the psychometric properties of the Climate Change Anxiety Scale among adolescents in Italy (Study 1), and to investigate the psychological pathways through which climate change anxiety impacts adolescents' pro-environmental attitudes, examining the mediating roles of climate change worry and rumination related to eco-anxiety (Study 2). Methods: In Study 1, the psychometric properties (i.e., dimensionality, internal consistency, sex invariance and convergent validity) of the CCAS were explored using a sample of 250 high school students (45.60% Results: In Study 1, the CCAS showed a two-factor structure (i.e., cognitive impairment and functional impairment) with a good fit [ Discussion: The CCAS showed satisfactory psychometric properties among Italian adolescents. The exploratory model suggests that in adolescents, worry and rumination may have an adaptive role by transforming climate change anxiety into pro-environmental attitudes.
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