Crisis Pathways: Impacts of Global Crises on Families and Children

The climate crisis is leading to a rise in self-reported emotional responses. Climate emotions arise shaped by social interactions. Parents and caretakers likely have an important influence on how children and adolescents experience the climate crisis. Furthermore, children remain a largely understudied group compared to adolescents and adults. We seek to examine the of the relation between parent and child climate emotions and climate distress. Furthermore, parental reactions to child emotions associated with the climate crisis is examined as a mediator of these effects. Potential effects of child age on parent and child climate distress are examined. German-speaking parents of children aged 6 to 17 are recruited. Participants fill out an online survey consisting of four blocks: (1) sociodemographic data, (2) emotions, coping, distress, and communication about the climate crisis, (3) emotions, coping, distress, and communication about a different global crisis and (4) general trait variables. unknown other