The Impact Of Climate Change Risk Perception And Psychological Distances On Pro-environmental Behavior

In recent years,with the increasing environmental problems,the study of pro-environmental behavior has been deepened in order to reduce the negative impact of human activities on the natural environment by adjusting the interaction between man and nature.Pro-environmental behavior refers to the behavior which can reduce the damage to the environment and has positive effects on the environment.The pro-environmental behavior can promote the harmony between man and the environment and the development of ecological civilization.Therefore,it is of great significance to explore the psychological process of pro-environmental behavior,and to accelerate the development of environmental protection and environmental protection.At present,there are few studies on pro-environmental behavior at home and abroad,and the main concern is the influence of environmental values and environmental concerns on pro-environmental behavior.Through the literature analysis,it is found that climate change risk perception plays an important role in pro-environmental behavior,and the role of it in pro-environmental behavior is also affected by factors such as psychological distances.So,how does climate change risk perception and psychological distances affect the individual's pro-environmental behavior? On the basis of the existing research,this paper tries to study the mechanism of proenvironmental behavior from the angle of climate change risk perception and psychological distances,which has certain theoretical and practical value.This paper combs the research progresses of climate change risk cognition,psychological distances and pro-environmental behavior at home and abroad,and puts forward the hypothesis.then,combining the questionnaire method and the experimental method to explore the impact of climate change risk perception and four psychological distances to college students pro-environmental behavior.This paper revises the "Climate Risk Assessment Questionnaire" and validates the effectiveness of time distance,spatial distance,social distance and probability distance by pre-experiment.Formal experimental design is divided into four studies,using 2 * 2 group design.The mechanism of climate change risk perception and four psychological distances on pro-environmental behavior were discussed.Based on this,we further explore the impact of climate change risk perception and different kinds of psychological distance on pro-environmental behavior.The results show that:The main effect of climate change risk perception and the different distances of are significant.The interaction between them is significant.The near psychological distance is more likely to promote pro-environmental behavior under the high level of climate change risk perception.However,there is no significant difference under low level of risk perception.In addition,The main effect of climate change risk perception and the different types of psychological distances are significant.The interaction between them is significant.under the condition of near psychological distances,the probability distance is more likely to promote the individual's environmental behavior than the time distance,the social distance under the low level of climate change risk perception,but there is no differences on people with high level of climate change risk perception.Under the condition of far psychological distances,the time,space and probability distance are more likely to promote the individual's environmental behavior than the social distance under the high level of climate change risk perception,but there is no differences on people with low level of climate change risk perception.