Climate emergency coping scale: development and validation of a multidimensional scale.

ABSTRACT: Climate emergency poses not only environmental and economic challenges but also serious psychological consequences, contributing to growing levels of distress, anxiety, and helplessness. Despite increasing recognition of these effects, there is a lack of validated tools to assess how people cope emotionally and behaviorally with the climate crisis, especially in distinguishing between individual and social strategies. To address this gap, we developed and validated the Climate Emergency Coping Scale (CECS) through four studies conducted with Spanish samples. Study 1 (n = 520) used qualitative analysis to identify coping strategies from open-ended responses, forming the basis for item generation. Study 2 (n = 242) piloted the preliminary version to test its factorial structure

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Silveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12678921 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature