Daryanto Ahmad, Song Zening, Soopramanien Didier
Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, LA1 4YX, Lancaster, Lanchasire, UK.
International Business School, Beijing Foreign Studies University, No. 19, Xisanhuan Beilu, Haidian, Beijing 100089, China.
Pers Individ Dif. 2022 Mar;187:111415. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111415. Epub 2021 Nov 27.
In this paper, we examine the impact of causal attribution on pro-environmental behaviours in the context of COVID-19. Using data collected in July 2020 (N = 319 Chinese adults), we find that individuals' beliefs that the pandemic was caused by humanity's excessive intrusion into nature has a positive impact on their environmental awareness. This, in turn, triggers a positive behavioural change towards the environment. The current study unveils and empirically demonstrates the mechanism of the relationship between causal attribution of the pandemic and pro-environmental behaviour. The implication is that the pandemic presents an occasion for policymakers to consider human environmental intrusion as a causal attribution to engage individuals in pro-environmental behaviours through the design of strategies that explicitly emphasize the relationship between environmental degradation and global-scale epidemics.
在本文中，我们考察了因果归因在新冠疫情背景下对环保行为的影响。通过使用2020年7月收集的数据（N = 319名中国成年人），我们发现，个体认为疫情是由人类过度侵扰自然所致的信念，对其环境意识有积极影响。这进而引发了朝向环境的积极行为改变。本研究揭示并实证证明了疫情因果归因与环保行为之间关系的机制。这意味着，疫情为政策制定者提供了一个契机，使其能够将人类对环境的侵扰视为一种因果归因，通过设计明确强调环境退化与全球范围流行病之间关系的策略，促使个体参与环保行为。
