ABSTRACT (open access, CC BY-NC 4.0): The climate crisis has wide-ranging mental health impacts, but quantifying these is difficult due to the lack of standardized definitions and tools. This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate the psychometric instruments used to measure emotions related to the climate crisis, assessing their characteristics and gaps. Using PRISMA and COSMIN guidelines, the authors covered articles on self-report measures of eco-emotions and identified ten scales, four focusing on anxiety and six on other negative emotions. Most instruments were developed in the Global North, and six were multidimensional. The most common emotions measured were worry, anxiety, fear, and sadness, and nearly all scales included a behavioural or a cognitive dimension.
A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of instruments that measure climate change-related distress
ABSTRACT (open access, CC BY-NC 4.0): The climate crisis has wide-ranging mental health impacts, but quantifying these is difficult due to the lack of standardized definitions and tools. This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate the psychometric instruments used to measure emotions related to the climate crisis, assessing their characteristics and gaps. Using PRISMA and COSMIN guidelines, the authors covered articles on self-report measures of eco-emotions and identified ten scales, four focusing on anxiety and six on other negative emotions. Most instruments were developed in the Global North, and six were multidimensional. The most common emotions measured were worry, anxiety, fear, and sadness, and nearly all scales included a behavioural or a cognitive dimension.
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