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DOI	10.1186/s40359-024-01737-2
	Mental health during ecological crisis: translating and validating the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale for Argentinian and Spanish populations
	Rodriguez Quiroga, Andrea; Pena Loray, Juan Segundo; Moreno Poyato, Antonio; Roldan Merino, Juan; Botero, Camila; Bongiardino, Laura; Ivana Aufenacker, Saskia; Stanley, Samantha K.; Costa, Tiago; Luis, Silvia; O'Brien, Lean V.; Hogg, Teaghan L.; Teixeira-Santos, Luisa; de Pinho, Lara Guedes; Sequeira, Carlos; Sampaio, Francisco
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2050-7283
起始页码	12
结束页码	1
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Background Eco-anxiety is increasingly recognized as a shared experience by many people internationally, encompassing fear of environmental catastrophe and anxiety about ecological crises. Despite its importance in the context of the changing climate, measures for this construct are still being developed in languages other than English.Methods To contribute to global eco-anxiety research, we translated the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS) into Spanish, creating the HEAS-SP. We validated this measure in samples from both Argentina (n = 990) and Spain (n = 548), performing measurement invariance and confirmatory factor analyses. Internal consistency of the scale and score stability over time were investigated through reliability analyses. Differences in eco-anxiety across sociodemographic variables were explored through Student's t-tests and Pearson's r tests.Results The four-factor model of the HEAS-SP comprising affective and behavioural symptoms, rumination, and anxiety about personal impact demonstrated excellent model fit. We found good internal consistency for each subscale, and established measurement invariance between Spanish and Argentine samples, as well as across genders and participants' age. Spanish participants reported higher scores on the affective symptoms and personal impact anxiety factors compared to the Argentinian sample. Also, men reported lower levels than women on the subscales of affective symptoms, rumination, and personal impact anxiety. It was found that the relationship between both age and personal impact anxiety and age and affective symptoms varies significantly depending on the gender of the individuals. Younger participants tended to report higher scores on most dimensions of eco-anxiety.Conclusions These findings enhance the global initiative to investigate, explore and therefore comprehend eco-anxiety by introducing the first valid and reliable Spanish-language version of this psychometric instrument for its use within Spanish and Argentinian populations. This study augments the body of evidence supporting the robust psychometric properties of the HEAS, as demonstrated in prior validations for Australian, Turkish, Portuguese, German, French, and Italian populations.
英文关键词	Eco-anxiety; Climate change; Wellbeing; Mental health
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001207758900003
来源期刊	BMC PSYCHOLOGY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/291034
作者单位	University of Barcelona; University of Barcelona; Australian National University; Lusofona University; Universidade de Lisboa; University of Canberra; Nursing School of Coimbra; University of Evora; University of Evora
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rodriguez Quiroga, Andrea,Pena Loray, Juan Segundo,Moreno Poyato, Antonio,et al. Mental health during ecological crisis: translating and validating the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale for Argentinian and Spanish populations[J],2024,12(1).
APA	Rodriguez Quiroga, Andrea.,Pena Loray, Juan Segundo.,Moreno Poyato, Antonio.,Roldan Merino, Juan.,Botero, Camila.,...&Sampaio, Francisco.(2024).Mental health during ecological crisis: translating and validating the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale for Argentinian and Spanish populations.BMC PSYCHOLOGY,12(1).
MLA	Rodriguez Quiroga, Andrea,et al."Mental health during ecological crisis: translating and validating the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale for Argentinian and Spanish populations".BMC PSYCHOLOGY 12.1(2024).