Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the trends of psychological research on the climate crisis and human damage that are becoming more and more realistic and to draw future tasks. For this purpose, Google Scholar was utilized to explore research papers and books and those were categorized by research topics and research methods. The main keywords were ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate change’, ‘climate disaster’, ‘climate emergency’ and ‘psychology’. Searches using these keywords were conducted in both Korean and English. These papers and books were divided into international and domestic research trends.As a result, it was confirmed that there were many studies on climate crisis in foreign countries compared to domestic ones. Of course, even though these studies included psychological topics, the scholars who conducted these studies were not necessarily psychologists, but experts in various disciplines such as climatologists, environmentalists, educators, and journalists. Domestic research trends showed a similar pattern. However, the number of domestic research topics and papers was significantly smaller than the number of international research topics and papers. Moreover, in Korea, there were very few cases where psychologists participated in the research, and they rarely collaborated with experts in other disciplines. Based on these points, future domestic research tasks and research directions were presented.