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Environmental Anxiety & GriefCDS✓ Validated
Climate Distress Scale
Woodbury · 2019
Overview
Measures psychological distress specifically related to climate change, including grief over climate-related losses, anger at inaction, despair about the future, and guilt about personal contributions to climate change. Designed to assess the full range of negative emotional responses to the climate crisis.
Measure Details
Number of Items15 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Not at all, 5 = Extremely)
Author(s)Woodbury
Year Published2019
Internal Reliabilityα = .89
DomainEnvironmental Anxiety & Grief
Citation
Woodbury, Z. (2019). Climate trauma: Toward a new taxonomy of trauma. Ecopsychology, 11(1), 1–8.
Keywords
climate distressgriefangerdespairguilttraumaemotionalclimate change
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At a Glance
Items15
Year2019
Reliabilityα = .89