Climate Anxiety Assessment

Understand your relationship with climate emotions through a validated, research-based assessment.

About this page

What this page does: Self-administered, validated 13-question Climate Anxiety Scale.

Who this helps: Anyone curious about how climate change is affecting their thoughts, feelings, or daily functioning.

Key data sources: Clayton, S., & Karazsia, B. T. (2020). Climate Anxiety Scale. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Important limitations: Screening tool, not a clinical diagnosis; consult a mental-health professional for severe distress.

Suggested next step: Explore evidence-based coping strategies

Nurture uses the Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS, 2020) developed by Dr. Susan Clayton. The 13 questions measure two dimensions: cognitive-emotional impairment (rumination, intrusive thoughts) and functional impairment (interference with work, sleep, and relationships).

Your responses are private. Results are interpreted with research-backed thresholds and paired with coping strategies and action steps appropriate to your score.

How the assessment works

  • 13 short questions, each rated on a frequency scale.
  • Your score is summarized on two subscales — cognitive-emotional and functional impairment — with thresholds drawn from the original validation literature.
  • Results are paired with coping strategies (Recharge), and with action options (Action) so concern can be channeled constructively.
  • Nothing is shared publicly. If signed in, results are saved privately to your account under row-level security.