Fine Arts College, Guangxi Arts University, Nanning, 530022, China.
School of Management Science and Engineering, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanning, 530003, Guangxi, China.
Environ Manage. 2024 Feb;73(2):338-353. doi: 10.1007/s00267-023-01883-0. Epub 2023 Oct 7.
Residents are one of the most significant stakeholder groups in ecologically vulnerable regions, and the local ecological environmental governance efforts require their active cooperation and participation. To this end, this study leverages the sampled survey data from residents across 14 cities in Guangxi, China, and uses a structural equation modeling analysis to explore the impact of environmental education perception on residents' ecological security behavior. The results indicate that psychological ownership of nature plays a positive mediating role between environmental education perception and residents' ecological security behavior, as well as between ecological consciousness and residents' ecological security behavior, thereby supporting the idea that a sense of stewardship in protecting ecological security is a key factor in residents' conversion of their ecological protection cognition into practical actions. Further research finds that visual fluency has a moderating effect on the relationship between environmental education perception and psychological ownership of nature. This study provides new insights into the theoretical understanding of the formation mechanism of residents' ecological security behavior, enriches the theory of psychological ownership, and offers policy recommendations for governments implementing ecological environmental propaganda programs.
居民是生态脆弱地区最重要的利益相关者群体之一，地方生态环境治理需要他们的积极合作和参与。为此，本研究利用中国广西 14 个城市居民的抽样调查数据，运用结构方程模型分析方法，探讨了环境教育感知对居民生态安全行为的影响。结果表明，自然心理所有权在环境教育感知与居民生态安全行为之间以及生态意识与居民生态安全行为之间发挥了积极的中介作用，从而支持了保护生态安全的管家意识是居民将生态保护认知转化为实际行动的关键因素的观点。进一步的研究发现，视觉流畅性对环境教育感知与自然心理所有权之间的关系具有调节作用。本研究为居民生态安全行为形成机制的理论理解提供了新的视角，丰富了心理所有权理论，并为政府实施生态环境宣传计划提供了政策建议。
