Awareness of everyday effects of climate change: The climate change perceptual awareness scale (CCPAS).

ABSTRACT: Climate change is intrinsically complex and demands a certain degree of abstraction. However, different individuals report a wide range and degree of tangible and sensory experiences of climate change. As perceptual and sensory awareness of climate change has important consequences for the promotion of sustainable behaviors, pro-climate policies, and clinical interventions for climate-related disorders such as climate anxiety, new specific tools are required: herein we detail the development of a psychometric measure of perceptual awareness of climate change, as well as provide evidence for its discriminant, convergent, and predictive validity for sustainable behaviors. The administration of this scale on a representative sample of the UK population (Study 1) yielded a 4-factor structure,

SUBMITTER: Cipriani E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11467585 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature