Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610200, China.
Center for Crisis Management Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Jan 8;15(1):91. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15010091.
This study differentiates the risk perception and influencing factors of climate change along the dimensions of global severity and personal threat. Using the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSGS) data (N = 2001) as a representative sample of adults from Taiwan, we investigated the influencing factors of the risk perceptions of climate change in these two dimensions (global severity and personal threat). Logistic regression models were used to examine the correlations of individual factors (gender, age, education, climate-related disaster experience and risk awareness, marital status, employment status, household income, and perceived social status) and societal factors (religion, organizational embeddedness, and political affiliations) with the above two dimensions. The results demonstrate that climate-related disaster experience has no significant impact on either the perception of global severity or the perception of personal impact. However, climate-related risk awareness (regarding typhoons, in particular) is positively associated with both dimensions of the perceived risks of climate change. With higher education, individuals are more concerned about global severity than personal threat. Regarding societal factors, the supporters of political parties have higher risk perceptions of climate change than people who have no party affiliation. Religious believers have higher risk perceptions of personal threat than non-religious people. This paper ends with a discussion about the effectiveness of efforts to enhance risk perception of climate change with regard to global severity and personal threat.
本研究从全球严重程度和个人威胁两个维度来区分气候变化的风险感知和影响因素。利用 2013 年台湾社会变迁调查（TSGS）数据（N=2001）作为台湾成年人的代表性样本，我们调查了这两个维度（全球严重程度和个人威胁）中气候变化风险感知的影响因素。使用逻辑回归模型来检验个人因素（性别、年龄、教育程度、气候相关灾害经历和风险意识、婚姻状况、就业状况、家庭收入和感知社会地位）和社会因素（宗教信仰、组织嵌入和政治派别）与上述两个维度的相关性。结果表明，气候相关灾害经历对全球严重程度或个人影响的感知没有显著影响。然而，气候相关风险意识（尤其是对台风的风险意识）与气候变化风险感知的两个维度呈正相关。教育程度越高，个人对全球严重程度的关注程度越高，而对个人威胁的关注程度越低。在社会因素方面，政党支持者比无党派人士对气候变化的风险感知更高。宗教信徒比非宗教人士对个人威胁的风险感知更高。本文最后讨论了在提高对气候变化的全球严重程度和个人威胁的风险感知方面的有效性。
