Negative climate emotions can be difficult to manage

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated challenges and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2021 and 2026, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 3 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Which coping strategies reduce negative climate emotions when participants get to choose their preferred strategy? A quasi-experimental investigation of meaning- emotion- and problem-focused coping (2026) · doi

  Negative climate emotions can be difficult to manage and can impair functioning. Individuals may have limited access to effective coping strategies. Climate change is a complex and multifaceted issue that can be challenging to address.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: negative climate emotions difficult manage impair functioning individuals
• Do climate emotions matter? Investigating their role in pro-environmental behavior (2026) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · cited 1× · doi

  While mainly positive associations between pro-environmental behavior and selected emotions, such as climate anxiety or climate anger, have been observed, research following a multidimensional understanding of climate emotions is scarce.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate emotions mainly positive associations environmental behavior selected anxiety anger observed following multidimensional understanding scarce
• Engaging through enraging: Does inciting anger about climate change increase support for climate action? (2026) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · doi

  People are increasingly reporting feeling angry about climate change, but to what extent does this anger fuel climate change engagement? Climate anger is correlated with pro-climate action, but there is limited evidence about whether climate anger is causally linked to climate action.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate anger change action people increasingly reporting feeling angry extent fuel engagement correlated there limited
• The Role of Emotions in Mobilization of Society to Fight Climate Change: Constructing Emotional State to Inspire Mass Movement (2021) · Politologija · cited 2× · doi

  How do emotions contribute to mobilizing the international community to join massive protests against climate change? Although it is common to superficially state that protests are full of various emotions, it remains unclear how emotions become collective on the international level and how they ensure the spread of mass mobilization.

  generalabstractevidence 3/5
  Keywords: emotions international protests contribute mobilizing community join massive against climate change common superficially state full

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