Climate Change and Its Impact on Humans’ Mental Health

Abstract

  Mixed documentary research data methodology including nominal, ordinal, discrete, and continuous data on climate change and its impacts on humans’ mental health were reviewed; the Quantitative research method assessed 400 disaster-participating victims who faced natural disasters: floods, droughts and others’ natural disasters in 1973-2024 from four provinces in each region of Thailand to their perceptions that creative the 36-item Questionnaire on Climate Change and its Impacts on Human Mental Health (CCIHMH) on six scales in five options. The disaster victims’ attitudes were assessed using the 10-item Attitudes Towards Raising Awareness and Consciousness of the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change (ARACMH) Inventory. Most of the questionnaires are valid and reliable. Associations between the participant’s perceptions of their facing climate change and its impact on their mental health with their attitudes towards raising awareness and consciousness. Statistically significant with simple and multiple correlations, the regression (β) coefficient was associated. The R² value indicates that 48% of the variance in participants’ facing climate change and its impact on the mental health of their ARACMH attitudes toward raising awareness and consciousness are attributable to their affecting association with the CCIHM scales. Climate change can have a significant impact on mental health: psychological distress, anxiety and depression, suicide, mental disorders, economic challenges, and migration. Suggestions that cause global climate change have affected the Solar and Sunspot Cycles indicate that 11.1 surrounding years: 4.8 years for floods and 6.2 years for droughts that the Dendrochronology of natural plants has recorded are associated, significantly.