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Climate Change BeliefsCAS✓ Validated
Climate Anxiety Scale
Clayton & Karazsia · 2020
Overview
Measures anxiety and worry about climate change, including cognitive (rumination, intrusive thoughts), affective (fear, dread), and behavioral (avoidance, compulsive checking) dimensions of climate-related anxiety. Distinguishes adaptive anxiety (motivating action) from maladaptive anxiety (paralyzing distress).
Measure Details
Number of Items13 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Never, 5 = Almost always)
Author(s)Clayton & Karazsia
Year Published2020
Internal Reliabilityα = .88
DomainClimate Change Beliefs
Citation
Clayton, S., & Karazsia, B. T. (2020). Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, 101434.
Keywords
climate anxietyeco-anxietyworryfeardreadruminationclimate change
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At a Glance
Items13
Year2020
Reliabilityα = .88