| Title: | The relationship between psychological resilience, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and climate anxiety: a systematic review |
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| Authors: | ID Plohl, Nejc (Author)
ID Lampret, Ana (Author)
ID Smrke, Urška (Author)
ID Krajnc, Živa (Author)
ID Kos, Tina (Author)
ID Musil, Bojan (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Plohl_Nejc_2026.pdf (1,94 MB)
MD5: 894215EB8740FAB86F8BDED3CD00418B
 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08553-w
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.02 - Review Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
FERI - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MF - Faculty of Medicine
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| Abstract: | The increasing prevalence of climate anxiety and its associations with mental health disorders have encouraged the scien tific community to explore how individuals may effectively cope with this complex phenomenon. While existing research has primarily centered on behavioral strategies, much less is known about the role of traits and strategies that may help individuals mentally cope with adversity. Hence, the present preregistered review (PROSPERO: CRD42024574449) inves tigated the relationship between climate anxiety, psychological resilience, and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. We attempted to identify quantitative studies with observational designs that report novel results pertaining to associations of interest. To do so, we searched Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and MEDLINE for published papers and theses, along with PsyArxiv, SocArXiv, and medRxiv for preprints. Additionally, we searched the reference lists of all eligible studies and assessed the quality of articles using the Survey Studies in Psychology checklist. In the end, 13 articles that contained 15 relevant studies and 97 relevant findings met our eligibility criteria. The results showed that psychological resilience was consistently negatively associated with climate anxiety, whereas the results were rather mixed for adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. An additional identified construct, psychological adaptation to climate change - a blend of different (mal)adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies - was positively associated with climate anxiety. Despite limitations, such as the small number of studies and relatively low cohesion between them, our review highlights psychological resilience as a protective factor and the complexity of the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and climate anxiety. |
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| Keywords: | psychological resilence, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, climate anxiety, systematic reviews |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Article acceptance date: | 23.11.2025 |
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| Publication date: | 06.02.2026 |
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| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
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| Year of publishing: | 2026 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-17 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 45, št. članka 161 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-96501  |
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| UDC: | 159.95 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1936-4733 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 264172803 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s12144-025-08553-w |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 25.02.2026 |
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| Views: | 225 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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