Climate Distress

Dimension 793 of 1,100 · Health Lens

Excitement Index

0.0511

Climate Distress measures the degree of emotionally burdensome preoccupation, worry, and self-focused strain linked to climate change and broader environmental problems. It encompasses awareness of environmental issues, concern about losses and consequences, and anxious or ruminative difficulty managing one's reactions to climate change.

evidence final name · Greenhouse Warming

Bands

Minimal Climate Distress

Expressions activating this band show little or no emotionally burdensome engagement with climate or environmental problems, with attention directed to unrelated daily experiences, general beliefs, or neutral environmental topics such as conservation or neighborhood conditions.

Mild Climate Distress

Expressions activating this band show light engagement with environmental issues, including general opinions, evaluations, or situational awareness about environmental conditions without clear personal emotional strain or persistent preoccupation.

Moderate Climate Distress

Expressions activating this band show recurring concern about environmental loss and sustainability, with thoughts that feel difficult to set aside and tension between environmental worries and personal or family needs.

Severe Climate Distress

Expressions activating this band show intense, persistent climate-related anxiety and rumination, including intrusive thoughts, avoidance of painful feelings, self-questioning, and distress about one's personal responsibility or ability to cope with climate change.

Evidence summary

Candidate names

Greenhouse Warming1.00

Environment0.50

Environmental0.50

Sentence counts by range

B-3..B34,977,068

B4..B74,178

B8..B14517

B15..B2180

Dataset representation

01__health_reviews__druglib__benefits_effectiveness24

03__fact_checking__liar__truth_ordinal140

05__whole_disney_dataset__rating34

06__text_reviews__acl_imdb__binary_sentiment92

07__emotion_labels__goemotions_reddit__multilabel71

08__dialogue_emotion__empathetic_dialogues__context70

10__social_media_sentiment__sentiment140__binary78

11__consumer_complaints__response_explanation_vs_relief43

Anchor definitions

Minimal Greenhouse Warming

Minimal Greenhouse Warming: Content characterized by mankind, conserving, aware, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect greenhouse warming at this level.

Moderate Greenhouse Warming

Moderate Greenhouse Warming: Content characterized by environmental, environmentalists, corporations, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect greenhouse warming at this level.

Intense Greenhouse Warming

Intense Greenhouse Warming: Content characterized by environment, carbon, humans, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect greenhouse warming at this level.

Peak Greenhouse Warming

Peak Greenhouse Warming: Content characterized by warming, global, rise, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect greenhouse warming at this level.