Climate on Your Mind – Young People's Strategies for Coping with Ecological Crises in a Multinational Survey
Climate change and environmental crises are causing significant emotional distress for young people around the world. This can have negative mental health impacts or motivate people to take action, depending on how young people cope with these issues. This project aims to test a new questionnaire called Eco-COPE, which measures different ways young people (ages 15–25) deal with ecological distress. Researchers are validating this tool across 14 European countries, with translations in Albanian, Armenian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish. The goal is to ensure the questionnaire works reliably across different cultures so scientists can meaningfully compare coping strategies between countries. Understanding these patterns helps identify which coping methods protect mental health versus those that might increase distress, and could inform support programs for youth facing climate anxiety.
Authors
- Magdalena Gawrych (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0668-5437)
- Jana Turzáková (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8483-8588)
- Emilda Roseni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0757-2039)
- Marilda Osmani
- Andrea Czakó (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4525-0524)
- Vaitsa Giannouli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2176-8986)
- Manuel Bächtold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-5177)
- Katarína Matejová (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2873-751X)
- Baiba Martinsone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9404-1759)
- Felix Peter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-6574)
- Menada Gardalini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-4414)
- Sonia Mukhtar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4480-648X)
- Asbrand Julia
- Oscar Elía‐Zudaire (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1396-834X)
- Nora Spirkl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6024-5832)
- Edanur Özkaya Bozkurt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8318-1123)
- Laurent Brun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-3001)
- Salam Jabbour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4595-5850)
- Andrea Sollárová
- Habibe Bay Özçalık
- Merve Cesur Atintaş
- ÖZLEM KÖSEOĞLU
- João Miguel Alves Ferreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-0849)
- Carlos Sequeira
- Matthias Ziegler
- Özge Ünal Koçaslan
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Ambrine Sempere
- Karine Mayilyan
- Margaret Lawler
- Fatma Özge Kayhan Kocal
- Marie-Laure Parmentier
- Gamze Özel Kadılar
- Aysegül Ilgaz
- Estefanía Canedo
- Martina Romanová
- Rümeysa Yeniçağ Emre
- Ashling Bourke
- Francisco Sampaio
Publication Details
- Journal
- Psychology Archives
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22540
- Primary Topic
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Type
- preprint