Gender differences in anticipatory worry and avoidance behaviors have been documented for clinical anxiety in adolescents
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Gender differences in anticipatory worry and avoidance behaviors have been documented for clinical anxiety in adolescents, but no study has examined whether these gender-differentiated patterns extend to ecological or climate anxiety specif
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Sourced from the synthesized of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2017 and 2024, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 223 times in total.
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- Intolerance of Uncertainty, anxiety, and worry in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis (2017) · Journal of Affective Disorders · cited 163× · doi
No longitudinal studies have examined how intolerance of uncertainty—a cognitive factor strongly associated with anxiety in youth—predicts the development or trajectory of ecological anxiety specifically. Existing work establishes intolerance of uncertainty as a robust predictor of generalized anxiety and worry in adolescents, but none of these studies applies this construct to environmental or climate-related anxiety.
generalsynthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: longitudinal studies have examined intolerance uncertainty cognitive factor - Eco-Anxiety in Children and Young People – A Rational Response, Irreconcilable Despair, or Both? (2024) · The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child · cited 45× · doi
Ecological anxiety has been documented as a clinical phenomenon in children and young people, but no empirical studies have measured its cognitive components (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry) or compared these to other anxiety disorders using validated diagnostic instruments and structured assessments.
generalsynthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: ecological anxiety has been documented clinical phenomenon children - The role of anxiety and gender in anticipation and avoidance of naturalistic anxiety‐provoking experiences during adolescence: An ecological momentary assessment study (2022) · JCPP Advances · cited 15× · doi
Gender differences in anticipatory worry and avoidance behaviors have been documented for clinical anxiety in adolescents, but no study has examined whether these gender-differentiated patterns extend to ecological or climate anxiety specifically, despite evidence that girls report greater worry about future events.
generalsynthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: gender differences anticipatory worry avoidance behaviors have been
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