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Commentary: Climate change worry among adolescents-on the importance of going beyond the constructive-unconstructive dichotomy to explore coping efforts-a commentary on Sciberras and Fernando (2021)
Örebro University, School of Law, Psychology and Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6613-5974
2022 (English)In: Child and Adolescent Mental Health, ISSN 1475-357X, E-ISSN 1475-3588, Vol. 27, no 1, p. 89-91Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
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This opinion piece comments on Sciberras and Fernando's (2021) article in which an 8-year longitudinal study is presented. The authors investigate trajectories of climate change worry through adolescence and associations with measures of depression and engagement with news and politics in late adolescence. Their objective is to explore whether climate change worry is a constructive or unconstructive psychological phenomenon. Their conclusion is that it is mainly an adaptive response but, for some groups, such as young people with pre-existing mental health problems, climate change worry could exacerbate their difficulties. In this commentary, it is argued that since research has found diverse results regarding whether climate worry is adaptive or not, one should perhaps not focus so much on the emotion itself, but rather on how people cope with their worry. Some examples of how young people cope with climate change are presented, and it is argued that taking account of these coping strategies in future longitudinal studies would be beneficial.

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Routledge, 2022. Vol. 27, no 1, p. 89-91
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Climate change worry, climate change engagement, coping, meaning-focused coping, subjective well-being, young people
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-95950DOI: 10.1111/camh.12530ISI: 000729671700001PubMedID: 34904352Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121151948OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-95950DiVA, id: diva2:1620204
Available from: 2021-12-15 Created: 2021-12-15 Last updated: 2023-12-08Bibliographically approved

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