The relationship between eco-anxiety and climate activism
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The relationship between eco-anxiety and climate activism among young people remains contested. - Global South evidence is scarce. - The moderating role of collective efficacy in the relationship between eco-anxiety and climate activism is
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Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps
- From Eco-Anxiety to Climate Activism: The Moderating Role of Collective Efficacy Among Generation Z in Indonesia (2026) · Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences · doi
climate-adaptation planning so that young people experience tangible influence; community disasterpreparedness initiatives around haze and tidal flooding can be structured as youth-led collectives with visible, attributable outcomes; and school and university environmental curricula can pair factual content with supervised collective-action projects that build efficacy experientially. Public communication that legitimises moral anger at institutional inaction, paired with credible channels for collective action, is likely to be more mobilising, and less psychologically costly, than messaging that amplifies fear without efficacy; efficacyladen hope is a comparably potent motivational resource.19,24 Because activism was measured as willingness, programmes should also attend to the intention-behaviour gap, providing low-friction pathways that convert willingness into sustained participation. Four limitations qualify the findings. First, the crosssectional design precludes causal inference; the proposed sequence from anxiety through anger to activism is theoretically motivated and survived a reverse-ordering check but requires longitudinal or experimental confirmation. Second, although Harman's test, the latent method-factor model, and the diversity of construct correlations mitigate the concern, singlesource self-report data cannot wholly exclude commonmethod variance.
generalstated in limitationsevidence 5/5Keywords: efficacy collective action public anger activism willingness single climate adaptation planning young people experience tangible - From Eco-Anxiety to Climate Activism: The Moderating Role of Collective Efficacy Among Generation Z in Indonesia (2026) · Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences · doi
Longitudinal studies can capture changes over time and provide insights into the causal relationships between eco-anxiety, collective efficacy, and climate activism. - Studies can investigate the role of other factors, such as social identity and group-based emotion, in moderating the eco-anxiety to activism relationship.
generalstated in cells future researchevidence 5/5Keywords: longitudinal studies capture changes time provide insights causal - Beyond awareness: navigating the attitude-behavior gap in climate action among urban Egyptian youth (2026) · Frontiers in Climate · doi
Further research is needed to investigate the effectiveness of strategies to build trust and empower youth as agents of change. - Studies can explore the impact of collective efficacy and localized communication on climate action among youth. - Research can investigate the role of educational institutions in fostering climate awareness and promoting proactive engagement.
generalstated in cells future researchevidence 4/5Keywords: further research needed investigate effectiveness strategies build trust - Understanding climate change awareness, social impacts, and adaptive behavior among university youth in Bangladesh (2026) · Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika · doi
Future studies should examine longitudinal changes in awareness and behavior among university youth. - Research should investigate the effectiveness of curriculum development and leadership programs in promoting climate change awareness and action. - Studies should examine the role of institutional support and leadership trust in promoting pro-environmental behavior among young people.
generalstated in cells future researchevidence 4/5Keywords: future studies examine longitudinal changes awareness behavior among - From Eco-Anxiety to Climate Activism: The Moderating Role of Collective Efficacy Among Generation Z in Indonesia (2026) · Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences · doi
The relationship between eco-anxiety and climate activism among young people remains contested. - Global South evidence is scarce. - The moderating role of collective efficacy in the relationship between eco-anxiety and climate activism is not well understood.
generalstated in cells research gapevidence 3/5Keywords: relationship between eco-anxiety climate activism among young people
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