了解应对气候危机:与年轻人进行关于代理和心理健康的实验研究
Julia Asbrand1,2, Nora Spirkl2, Gerhard Reese3
1Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Anxiety, stress, and coping
|August 21, 2024
概括
经历气候危机的年轻人可能会面临更大的焦虑,如果他们认为缺乏行动. 培养行动意识对于开发适应性应对机制和改善心理健康至关重要.
科学领域:
- 环境心理学 环境心理学
- 适应气候变化 适应气候变化
- 青少年心理健康 青少年心理健康
背景情况:
- 气候变化显著影响年轻人的心理健康,但具体机制尚未完全理解.
- 现有关于积极应对的研究表明,代理在管理与气候有关的焦虑方面发挥着作用.
- 这项研究调查了青少年和年轻人的感知机构,焦虑和应对策略之间的联系.
研究的目的:
- 实验性地研究机构操纵对年轻人暴露在气候变化信息中的状态焦虑和应对行为的影响.
- 检查心理健康,气候困扰,不容忍不确定性和特征应对方面的个人差异如何影响状态焦虑和应对.
- 确定潜在的心理机制,将气候变化问题与年轻人的心理健康结果联系起来.
主要方法:
- 一个实验设计,涉及244名15-25岁的参与者.
- 参与者观看了一个引发气候焦虑的视频,然后对感知机构 (高,低或控制) 进行操纵.
- 心理健康,不容忍不确定性,气候困境和应对策略的特征措施被评估为预测因素.
主要成果:
- 在高代理和对照组中,国家焦虑降低了,但在低代理组中没有降低,这表明与低代理感知相关的潜在风险.
- 高机构增强了以意义为中心的应对能力,而低机构减少了以意义和问题为中心的应对能力.
- 特征心理健康和特定的应对策略预测了他们的州级同行,以情绪为中心的应对受到所有评估的特征措施的影响.
结论:
- 向年轻人传达低主动性可能是有害的,导致完全的兴奋,并阻碍了功能性应对策略的使用.
- 旨在增强感知能力的干预措施对减轻气候焦虑和促进青年适应性应对至关重要.
- 了解代理,应对和心理健康之间的相互作用,对于为应对气候危机的年轻人开发有效的支持系统至关重要.
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