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Environmental Anxiety & GriefEAS-EA✓ Validated
Eco-Anxiety Scale
Pihkala · 2020
Overview
Measures eco-anxiety — chronic fear and anxiety about environmental doom and the future of the planet. Captures both the cognitive (worry, rumination) and somatic (physical symptoms of anxiety) dimensions of eco-anxiety, as well as its impact on daily functioning and quality of life.
Measure Details
Number of Items13 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Never, 5 = Always)
Author(s)Pihkala
Year Published2020
Internal Reliabilityα = .86
DomainEnvironmental Anxiety & Grief
Citation
Pihkala, P. (2020). Anxiety and the ecological crisis: An analysis of eco-anxiety and climate anxiety. Sustainability, 12(19), 7836.
Keywords
eco-anxietyenvironmental anxietyclimate anxietyworrydreadfuturedoom
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Free to use for research and educational purposes. Please cite the original authors.
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At a Glance
Items13
Year2020
Reliabilityα = .86