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Climate worry and mental health: the role of pro-environmental behavior and efficacy-based hope as coping strategies
We examined how climate worry, societal and individual efficacy-based climate hope (as a meaning-focused coping strategy), and pro-environmental behavior (PEB; as a problem-focused coping strategy) are related to mental health, namely, depressive and anxiety symptoms. We also studied whether efficacy-based climate hope or PEB (as a problem-focused coping strategy) moderate the association between climate worry and mental health problems. Furthermore, we examined whether PEB, when combined with efficacy-based climate hope, served as a protective factor for mental health. We investigated these associations among Finnish adults (N = 5701) from the ten largest cities in Finland. High levels of climate worry were associated with greater likelihood of experiencing more severe depressive (odds ratio (OR) 1.39, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.13–1.69) and anxiety (OR 1.91, 95 % CI 1.52–2.40) symptoms than low levels of climate worry. Low levels of societal efficacy-based hope were associated with greater likelihood of experiencing more severe depressive (OR 1.26, 95 % CI 1.04–1.69) and anxiety (OR 1.26, 95 % CI 1.02–1.58) symptoms than high levels of societal efficacy-based climate hope. Neither efficacy-based climate hope nor PEB moderated the association between climate worry and mental health. However, individual efficacy-based climate hope moderated the association between PEB and both mental health outcomes. Among those who showed more engagement in PEB, lower levels of individual efficacy-based hope were associated with greater odds of experiencing depressive and anxiety symptoms, in comparison to those who showed more PEB and had higher levels of hope. Although climate worry was related to mental health symptoms in our study, we suggest that the focus of psychological adaptation to climate crisis should not be on eliminating worry, but on finding a way to channel it. Based on our findings, it is possible that a coping strategy integrating behavioral engagement with climate hope may support planetary health by mitigating mental health impacts of climate crisis while simultaneously strengthening commitment to climate change mitigation
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Detecting Connectivity Patterns in Nordic Twittersphere by Cluster Analysis
We analyze Nordic social media users by clustering them based on their connections on Twitter. The data consists of 15,794 users in the five Nordic countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. We first create an undirected graph from the friendship relations (mutually following each other), then divide the graph into five clusters using a recent M-algorithm, and finally compare the results to users’ locations. The results demonstrate that the users are strongly clustered according to their home country. There is surprisingly little interaction across the countries despite the fact that they are, except for Iceland, physically close to each other and have cultural and linguistic similarities. The main language of the four countries belongs to the Germanic languages, while Finnish is typologically distinct. We further explore content from users in each country, analyzing its alignment with connectivity patterns. Our findings reveal a discrepancy between user-generated content similarity in the Nordic region and their connectivity patterns