TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian Youth Mental Health and Climate Change Concern After the Black Summer Bushfires
AU - Lykins, Amy D.
AU - Parsons, Melissa
AU - Craig, Belinda M.
AU - Cosh, Suzanne M.
AU - Hine, Donald W.
AU - Murray, Clara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/4/28
Y1 - 2023/4/28
N2 - Climate change and its effects present notable challenges for mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations, including young people. Immediately following the unprecedented Black Summer bushfire season of 2019/2020, 746 Australians (aged 16–25 years) completed measures of mental health and perceptions of climate change. Results indicated greater presentations of depression, anxiety, stress, adjustment disorder symptoms, substance abuse, and climate change distress and concern, as well as lower psychological resilience and perceived distance to climate change, in participants with direct exposure to these bushfires. Findings highlight significant vulnerabilities of concern for youth mental health as climate change advances.
AB - Climate change and its effects present notable challenges for mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations, including young people. Immediately following the unprecedented Black Summer bushfire season of 2019/2020, 746 Australians (aged 16–25 years) completed measures of mental health and perceptions of climate change. Results indicated greater presentations of depression, anxiety, stress, adjustment disorder symptoms, substance abuse, and climate change distress and concern, as well as lower psychological resilience and perceived distance to climate change, in participants with direct exposure to these bushfires. Findings highlight significant vulnerabilities of concern for youth mental health as climate change advances.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85153789792&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10393-023-01630-1
DO - 10.1007/s10393-023-01630-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85153789792
SN - 1612-9210
VL - 20
SP - 3
EP - 8
JO - Ecohealth
JF - Ecohealth
ER -