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Environmental Anxiety & GriefEGS-G✓ Validated

Environmental Grief Scale

Lertzman · 2015

Overview

Measures grief responses to environmental loss and degradation, including sadness, mourning, anger, and a sense of helplessness in response to species extinction, habitat destruction, and climate-driven environmental change. Designed to assess the full range of grief responses to ecological loss, from acute grief to chronic mourning.

Measure Details

Number of Items14 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Never, 5 = Always)
Author(s)Lertzman
Year Published2015
Internal Reliabilityα = .87
DomainEnvironmental Anxiety & Grief

Citation

Lertzman, R. (2015). Environmental melancholia: Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement. Routledge.

Keywords

environmental griefmourninglossextinctionhabitatsadnessangerhelplessness

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At a Glance

Items14
Year2015
Reliabilityα = .87