Reexamining the relations between socio-demographic characteristics and individual environmental concern: Evidence from Shanghai data
Reexamining the relations between socio-demographic characteristics and individual environmental concern: Evidence from Shanghai data
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.10.003
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Saijo, Tatsuyoshi
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作者：
Shen, Junyi;Saijo, Tatsuyoshi
本研究采用中国上海 1200 名个体的汇总样本，重新审视社会人口特征对个人环境关注的影响。先前的研究努力将环境关注解释为社会结构的函数，表明传统上对社会人口特征与个人环境关注之间的关系有五种观察（年龄、性别、社会阶层、居住地和政治取向影响）。在本研究中，我们首先对一组 11 项环境关注措施进行因子分析，然后通过应用看似无关的回归 (SUR) 模型，使用所得因子来检验三个观察结果（年龄、性别和社会阶层效应）。因此，高家庭收入和高教育水平对环境问题的反应正如预期的那样积极。然而，我们发现，与之前的大多数研究相反，年龄对个人环境关注表现出积极的反应，这意味着老一代人比年轻人更关注环境。此外，SUR结果表明，上海女性似乎不如男性那么关心环境。其他社会人口特征，如就业状况和家庭规模，被发现几乎与环境问题无关。 (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
This study reexamines the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on individual environmental concern by applying a pooled sample of 1200 individuals in Shanghai, China. Previous studies, which made efforts to explain environmental concern as a function of social structure, suggest that there are traditionally five observations (the age, gender, social class, residence, and political orientation effects) for the relations between socio-demographic characteristics and individual environmental concerns. In this study, we first conduct a factor analysis to a group of 11 environmental concern measures and then use the resulting factors to test three observations (the age, gender, and social class effects) by applying a seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) model. As a result, high household income and high education level have reacted positively to environmental concern as expected. However, we find that in contrast to most of the previous studies, age has shown positive reaction to individual environmental concern, implying that the older generation is more concerned about the environment than the younger population. In addition, the SUR results indicate that women in Shanghai seem less concerned about the environment than men. Other socio-demographic characteristics such as employment status and household size are found to be almost irrelevant to environmental concern. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.