Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China.
Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 7;17(5):1750. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051750.
Mixed evidence exists regarding the relationship between environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior. This study uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center of Ecological Civilization (CEC) of China University of Geosciences from December 2015 to March 2016 and examines how cultural bias influences environmental risk perception and behavior. We found that an individual's pro-environmental behavior is not only influenced by environmental risk perception, but also by his or her cultural worldviews. Built on culture theory (CT), our empirical results suggest that young Chinese people are more located in "high-group" culture, where egalitarian culture and hierarchical culture dominate. The higher scores of hierarchical and egalitarian cultures of Chinese youth, the more likely they are to protect the environment. Moreover, the relationship between cultural worldviews and pro-environmental behaviors are mediated by perceived environmental risks.
关于环境风险认知与亲环境行为之间的关系，目前的证据尚存在差异。本研究使用了中国地质大学生态文明研究中心（CEC）于 2015 年 12 月至 2016 年 3 月期间进行的一项现有在线调查，考察了文化偏见如何影响环境风险认知和行为。我们发现，个人的亲环境行为不仅受到环境风险认知的影响，还受到其文化世界观的影响。基于文化理论（CT），我们的实证结果表明，中国的年轻人更多地处于“高群”文化中，其中平等主义文化和等级主义文化占主导地位。中国年轻人的等级和平等主义文化得分越高，他们就越有可能保护环境。此外，文化世界观与亲环境行为之间的关系受到感知到的环境风险的调节。
