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Climate psychology includes many subfields and focuses including: the effects of climate change on mental health, the psychological impact of climate change, the psychological explanation of climate inaction, and climate change denial. Climate psychology is a sub-discipline of environmental psychology.
Furthermore vectors can live in more places if winter temperatures do not drop below the minimum that vectors can survive. [47] Climate change may also directly or indirectly cause changes in land use or biodiversity. These changes can destroy or create habitats that bring people into closer or more frequent contact with environments that have ...
The psychological effects of climate change may be investigated within the field of climate psychology or picked up in the course of treatment of mental health disorders. Non-clinical approaches, campaigning options, internet-based support forums, and self-help books may be adopted by those not overwhelmed by climate anxiety.
Many of the climate change impacts which affect children's physical health also lead to psychological and mental health consequences. [46] Children who live in geographic locations that are most susceptible to the impacts of climate change, and/or with weaker infrastructure and fewer supports and services suffer the worst impacts. [46]
Soft climate change denial (also called implicit or implicatory climate change denial) is a state of mind acknowledging the existence of global warming in the abstract while remaining, to some extent, in partial psychological or intellectual denialism about its reality or impact.
Eco-anxiety (short for ecological anxiety and also known as eco-distress or climate anxiety) is a challenging emotional response to climate change and other environmental issues. [1] Extensive studies have been done on ecological anxiety since 2007, and various definitions remain in use. [ 2 ]
Climate psychology; Confined environment psychology; Connectedness to nature scale; Conservation psychology; Crime prevention through environmental design;
More than 60% of participants said they were "very" worried about climate change and 45% reported the climate anxiety affects their daily life functioning. [8] Reports of climate change affecting their daily life functioning were higher in poverty stricken areas where climate change is affecting livelihood practices.