The double-edged role of eco-anxiety: antecedents and consequences on pro-environmental behaviors
(2025) An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities — ISBN: [9781041050087], published
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Parmentier, Michaël 
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- Climate change is one of the greatest threats of our time. It causes problem on the environment like flooding, pollution, deforestation, global warming… And on the physical and mental health. Many people are suffering from the development of eco-emotion and mainly eco-anxiety. In this climate emergency, it is important for each of us to develop more pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). The influence of eco-anxiety on PEBS was sometimes demonstrated significant, sometimes non-significant. A possible explanation at these results can come from consideration of PEBs like a unidimensional construct. However, some studies support the importance of considering PEBs like a multifactorial concept. The aim of this paper is two-fold: (1) To analyse how eco-anxiety determines three types of PEBs namely individual, collective and political; (2) To understand the combined role of general anxiety, environmental identity and personal experience of climate change on the development of eco-anxiety. Finally, we analyse the first two aims via a structural equation model with moderating effects of gender and place of living. The results show positive correlations of the three antecedents mentioned above on eco-anxiety, as well as positive correlations of eco-anxiety on the three types of PEB.
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Hannuzet, A., De Clercq, M., Senden, M., & Parmentier, M. (2025). The double-edged role of eco-anxiety: antecedents and consequences on pro-environmental behaviors. In Andrea Catellani, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Øyvind Gjerstad, and Armelle Nugier (ed.), An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003630968-15