Mainly positive associations between pro-environmental

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section and stated challenges and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2021 and 2026, spanning 5 journals. Those papers have been cited 5 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Climate change and the collective: understanding climate change through the lens of collective trauma and ecological systems theory (2026) · Frontiers in Conservation Science · doi

  The collective nature of climate change is undertheorized and understudied. There is a lack of understanding of the collective impacts of climate change on mental health and wellbeing. Existing literature predominantly captures individual psychopathological impacts, with limited understanding of the collective nature of climate change.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: collective nature climate change undertheorized understudied there lack
• Affective Climate and Political Polarization: Identity, Ideology, and Support for Climate Policy (2026) · Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie · cited 1× · doi

  There is a gap in our understanding of the relationship between affective climate polarization and political polarization. There is a need for more research on the factors associated with affective climate polarization and support for climate policy.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: there gap understanding relationship between affective climate polarization
• Affective Climate and Political Polarization: Identity, Ideology, and Support for Climate Policy (2026) · Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie · cited 1× · doi

  Future research should examine the relationship between affective climate polarization and political polarization in other contexts. Future research should explore the implications of affective climate polarization for public engagement with climate policy.

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: future research examine relationship between affective climate polarization
• Emotions matter: Lessons learned about community members’ climate attitudes from an educational climate change museum exhibit (2026) · Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education · doi

  Climate change continues to be an urgent threat to mankind, causing extensive health, well-being, economic, and social harm. Emotional responses may play an active role in supporting climate views, yet this connection remains underexplored.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: climate change continues urgent threat mankind causing extensive
• 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

  Most experimental paradigms assign participants to a regulation strategy, whereas in everyday life, people choose how they want to cope. There is a need to understand how individuals cope with negative climate emotions and whether the chosen coping strategy affects the reduction in negative affect.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: experimental paradigms assign participants regulation strategy whereas everyday
• 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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