Breathe Out: Ecopsychology and Eco-anxiety Relating to Age, Sex, and Climate Crisis Knowledge

the studyaims to determine the existing levels of eco-anxiety and ecopsychology of 138 Filipinos living in Region IV-A, the most populous administrative region in the Philippines. The research used the CCAS (Clayton & Karazsia, 2020) to examine the eco-anxiety level, the CNS (Mayer & Frantz, 2004) to evaluate the ecopsychology level, and a knowledge test from EARTHDAY.ORG to assess the participants’ knowledge level about the climate crisis. The instrument underwent pilot testing and validation to ensure the appropriateness of the tests for the study, and a reliability test using Cronbach’s alpha showed excellent internal consistency for the scales. With the help of the chi-square test, the researchers found that ecopsychology levels and eco-anxiety levels were determined by one’s sex and knowledge about the climate crisis, while age didn’t have a bearing on the degree of people’s ecopsychology and eco-anxiety. To add value to the findings, the study recommended that the government and its departments invest in research on how to mitigate the threats of the climate crisis, especially for women, and do a rigorous execution of climate education in the Philippines.