Faculty of Life Sciences, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China.
Department of Chemistry, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China.
Sci Prog. 2021 Apr-Jun;104(2):368504211017420. doi: 10.1177/00368504211017420.
The environmental scientist has been playing an important role in preventing and mitigating environmental pollution. Individuals' images of the environmental scientist will likely impact and meditate their interest and attitudes toward environmental science as well as their willingness to take up an environmental science profession. However, prior studies focusing on the image of a professional are primarily of the general scientist. The environmental scientist and the image thereof remains out of the limelight of environmental science community and has been under-researched. In this article, on the basis of the retrospect on the stereotypical images of the general and environmental scientist and the gaps in previous studies, we attempted to report young individuals' images of the environmental scientist in an alternative context. Drawing technique was employed and administered to 127 junior students aged from 13 to 15 year-old from a junior high school. The individuals' image of environmental scientists can be generally abstracted as a male with environmental protection knowledge and commitment to environmental protection who does work more like a green chemist, ecology restorer, or plant protector and observes or cleans outdoors, primarily in forest, jungle, and/or by riverside.
环境科学家在预防和减轻环境污染方面发挥着重要作用。个人对环境科学家的形象可能会影响和思考他们对环境科学的兴趣和态度，以及他们从事环境科学职业的意愿。然而，之前关注专业人士形象的研究主要是针对一般科学家的。环境科学家及其形象仍然没有成为环境科学界的焦点，也没有得到充分的研究。在本文中，我们基于对一般科学家和环境科学家的刻板印象以及之前研究中的差距的回顾，试图在一个替代的背景下报告年轻人对环境科学家的形象。我们采用了绘图技术，并对一所初中的 127 名 13 至 15 岁的初中生进行了测试。环境科学家的形象可以概括为一个具有环保知识和环保承诺的男性，他的工作更像是一名绿色化学家、生态恢复者或植物保护者，主要在森林、丛林和/或河边进行观察或清洁工作。
