title: [Is it already '5 past 12'?--Development of a scale for "ecological hopelessness"].
abstract: The article reports results from a second follow-up survey (N = 541) on existential anxieties with a sample from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1992 who had first been questionned in 1985 when their ages were between 8 and 20 years. The report focuses on data gathered with a new scale on 'ecological hopelessness'. The new scale is comprised of 10 items and shows high reliability. The results reveal that every third youth in the sample articulates ecological hopelessness. Analyses of variance show that there is a strong gender difference: Girls/women express more hopelessness than boys/men, correlations and regression analyses show a negative relation between hopelessness and mental health and a positive relation between hopelessness and attempted coping. It is probable that hopelessness will expand if environmental destruction becomes more intensive. Thus, psychology as a part of humanities is obliged to not only point to the dangerous consequences of hopeless per se, but also to engage in the prevention of ecological hopelessness.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sohr
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D004463:Ecology; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics
vernacular_title: Ist es schon 'fünf nach zwölf'?--Entwicklung einer Skala zu "Okologischer Hoffnungslosigkeit".