The three projects comprising Chiara Hill-Harding’s PhD work on climate anxiety have been published in the following articles:
Hill-Harding, C. K. V., Klein, M. D., von Stackelberg, C., Papies, E. K., & Barsalou, L. (2025). Developing and evaluating a situated psychometric instrument for assessing climate anxiety: The SAM² CAM. Applied psychology: Health and Wellbeing. Online publication.
Hill-Harding, C. K. V., Barsalou, L. W., & Papies, E. K. (2025). Beyond symptomatic support: Students’ emotional experiences with climate change and how universities can help. Global Environmental Psychology. Online publication.
Hill-Harding, C. K. V., Papies, E. K., Barsalou, L. W., & Reid, K. (2026). From hope and action to giving up: Students’ stories of coping with climate change. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. Online publication.
The first of these articles used the Situated Assessment Method (SAM2) to assess climate anxiety in a representative UK sample. The second and third articles assessed climate anxiety in a University of Glasgow sample using quantitative and qualitative methods, respectively.