There is increasing recognition that people are experiencing stress and anxiety around climate change, and that this climate stress/anxiety may be associated with more pro-environmental behavior. However, less is known about whether people's own environmental exposures affect climate stress/anxiety or the relationship between climate stress/anxiety and civic engagement. Using three waves of survey data (2020–2022) from the nationally representative Tufts Equity in Health, Wealth, and Civic Engagement Study of US adults (n = 1071), we assessed relationships among environmental exposures (county-level air pollution, greenness, number of toxic release inventory sites, and heatwaves), self-reported climate stress/anxiety, and civic engagement measures (canvasing behavior, collaborating to solve community problems, personal efficacy to solve community problems, group efficacy to solve community problems, voting behavior). Most participants reported experiencing climate stress/anxiety (61%). In general, the environmental exposures we assessed were not significantly associated with climate stress/anxiety or civic engagement metrics, but climate stress/anxiety was positively associated with most of the civic engagement outcomes (canvassing, personal efficacy, group efficacy, voter preference). Our results support the growing literature that climate stress/anxiety may spur constructive civic action, though do not suggest a consistent relationship between adverse environmental exposures and either climate stress/anxiety or civic engagement. Future research and action addressing the climate crisis should promote climate justice by ensuring mental health support for those who experience climate stress anxiety and by promoting pro-environmental civic engagement efforts.

人们越来越认识到，人们正在经历气候变化带来的压力和焦虑，而这种气候压力/焦虑可能与更环保的行为有关。然而，人们自身的环境暴露是否会影响气候压力/焦虑，或者气候压力/焦虑与公民参与之间的关系，人们知之甚少。使用来自全国代表性的塔夫茨健康、财富和公民参与研究（n = 1071）的三波调查数据（2020-2022），我们评估了环境暴露之间的关系（县级空气污染、绿化、有毒物排放清单地点的数量和热浪）、自我报告的气候压力/焦虑和公民参与措施（游说行为、合作解决社区问题、解决社区问题的个人效能、解决社区问题的群体效能、投票行为） 。大多数参与者表示经历过气候压力/焦虑（61%）。一般来说，我们评估的环境暴露与气候压力/焦虑或公民参与指标没有显着相关，但气候压力/焦虑与大多数公民参与结果（拉票、个人效能、群体效能、选民偏好）呈正相关。我们的研究结果支持了越来越多的文献，即气候压力/焦虑可能会刺激建设性的公民行动，但并不表明不利的环境暴露与气候压力/焦虑或公民参与之间存在一致的关系。未来应对气候危机的研究和行动应通过确保为那些经历气候压力焦虑的人提供心理健康支持并促进有利于环境的公民参与努力来促进气候正义