Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety

Hannes Zacher () and Cort W. Rudolph
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Hannes Zacher: Leipzig University
Cort W. Rudolph: Wayne State University

Climatic Change, 2023, vol. 176, issue 4, No 5, 9 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from N = 2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both B = -.09, p

Keywords: Anxiety; Climate change; Environment; Knowledge; Pro-environmental behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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