Climate change anxiety in daily life: prevalence and distribution among young people in Canada

2026/03/01 by Breanne Aylward, Ashlee Cunsolo, Susan Clayton +4 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Environmental Education and Sustainability

paper · doi:10.1007/s10584-026-04141-4

openalex publication_date 2026/03/01 · openalex created_date 2026/03/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Citations

• Young People’s Coping Strategies Concerning Climate Change: Relations to Perceived Communication With Parents and Friends and Proenvironmental Behavior
• Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety
• Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change
• Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

Discussions

• The final paper from my PhD research is published! Using a national, randomized cross-sectional survey, we found that hundreds of thousands of young people in Canada are experiencing clinically relev [bsky, 6 points, 1 comments]