A novel measure, affective sensitivity to air pollution (ASAP), to assess psychological vulnerability to climate change.
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaReviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLMAug 12 2024 In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, researchers developed a novel measure, affective sensitivity to air pollution , to assess psychological vulnerability to climate change . They focused on fluctuations in individuals' emotions caused by their daily exposure to air pollution .
Examining fluctuations in individual emotions in response to variations in air pollution can give fresh insight into the short-term consequences of air pollution on well-being. Every day, participants reported the strength of feeling 20 emotions to determine their daily affective states, which included arousal and valence. Arousal refers to the physiological activity involved in an affective state, whereas daily affect valence indicates whether an affective state is positive or negative.
Between May 2010 and July 2011, participants completed telephonic and online surveys on their lifestyles across three three-week intervals spaced 4.5 months apart. Higher levels of AQI are associated with lower levels of arousal. The archetypal individual's affect arousal was lower on days with increasing air pollution. For example, each unit increase in air pollution decreased the archetypal individual’s arousal levels by 0.01.
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