Discovering emotional patterns for climate change and for the COVID-19 pandemic in university students - 02/04/22
Abstract |
The global crises of climate change and of the COVID-19 pandemic are straining young peoples’ mental health and their mitigation behaviours. We surveyed German-speaking university students aged 18 to 30 years on their negative emotions regarding both crises repeatedly before and during the COVID-19 crisis. Different emotional patterns emerged for climate change and for COVID-19 with negative emotions regarding COVID-19 increasing during the pandemic. We were further able to differentiate between emotional responses associated with impaired wellbeing and those associated with mitigation efforts. Our findings emphasise the need to focus on a mixture of highly inactivating and activating emotions regarding COVID-19 as they are associated with both reduced wellbeing and mitigation behaviours. The findings broaden the understanding of how young adults react to the burden of two global crises and what role negative emotions play.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Climate change, COVID-19, Emotions, Mental health, Mitigation behaviour, Young adults
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Vol 6
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