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The climate crisis is expected to have negative effects on the mental health of people around the world as climate change awareness, extreme weather and large-scale climatic events increase. In this study, researchers examined how negative climate-related emotions (such as psychological distress, anxiety and worry) relate to sleep and mental health using samples of people living in 25 countries as well as a Norwegian nationally representative sample. The findings show that negative emotions related to climate change were associated with insomnia symptoms and poorer self-rated mental health. The findings stress the need for cross-disciplinary research to understand how negative emotional responses to climate change uniquely affect mental health.

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This Research Snapshot is based on the article, “Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries” published in Current Psychology in 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01385-4

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