| Title: |
The Development of Eco-Anxiety through Middle Childhood and Adolescence ; Le développement de l'éco-anxiété au cours de la moyenne enfance et de l'adolescence |
| Authors: |
Mallet, Pascal |
| Contributors: |
Laboratoire Éthologie Cognition Développement (LECD); Université Paris Nanterre (UPN) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 2152-7180 ; Psychology ; https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-04811593 ; Psychology, 2024, 15 (11), pp.1697 - 1709. ⟨10.4236/psych.2024.1511099⟩. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Scientific Research Publishing |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Université Paris Lumières: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
Eco-Anxiety; Public Health; Children; Adolescents; Development; santé publique; enfants; développement; [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology |
| Description: |
International audience ; I hypothesized that 1) Eco-anxiety increases during adolescence, as a result of the teens' growing awareness of environmental threats; 2) It is stronger in girls than in boys, in accordance with the anxiety research; 3) This difference emerges in early adolescence, based on Hill & Lynch's "gender intensification hypothesis". The 831 French participants were attending the three highest elementary school grades and the seven secondary school grades. They filled out the basic eco-anxiety scale for children and adolescents (BEASCA), a new sixitem questionnaire, which proved to have acceptable psychometric properties for these ten grade groups. A grade-by-sex Anova revealed a rather large main effect of grade, with the five oldest groups reporting less eco-anxiety than the four youngest groups, and a medium sized main effect of sex, with girls being more eco-anxious than boys. A non-significant but tendential grade-by-sex interaction suggested that this sex difference emerges at the very end of elementary school. I discuss the origins of the unexpected decrease in eco-anxiety during early adolescence, and the utility of paying attention to children's worrying about environmental issues. ; Selon mes hypothèses (a) l’éco-anxiété devait augmenter pendant l’adolescence en conséquence d’une conscience croissance des menaces environnementale ; (b) elle devait être plus forte chez les filles que chez les garçons, comme c’est le cas pour l’anxiété dans d’autres domaines (c) cette dernière différence devait apparaître pendant la prime adolescence, conformément à l’hypothèse de « l’intensification de l’identité sexuée » de Hill et Lynch. Les 831 participants, français, étaient scolarisés aux trois niveaux supérieurs de l’école élémentaire et aux sept niveaux de l’enseignement secondaire. Ils remplirent l’échelle d’éco-anxiété fondamentale pour enfants et adolescents (basic eco-anxiety scale for children and adolescents, BEASCA), un nouveau questionnaire en six items qui s’avéra avoir de bonnes ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2024.1511099 |
| DOI: |
10.4236/psych.2024.1511099 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-04811593; https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-04811593v1/document; https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-04811593v1/file/Mallet_2024_Eco-anxiety%20through%20middle%20childhood%20and%20adolescence%20-%20Copie.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2024.1511099 |
| Rights: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.13B1685B |
| Database: |
BASE |