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When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk 个人何时采取行动保护环境？

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102472

Environmental risks can result in varying degrees of negative impacts, which can be categorized into micro-level individual impacts and macro-level social and ecological impacts. While extensive research has shown that individuals take actions to protect the environment in the face of environmental risks, the mechanisms underlying this behavior have received insufficient attention, particularly regarding the negative impacts stemming directly from environmental conditions. This study aims to examine the discrepancies in pro-environmental awareness and behavior in response to adverse consequences of diverse environmental risks from a risk management perspective. Utilizing data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we classified the negative impacts of environmental risks into two categories: individual and community levels. We investigated which specific negative impacts motivate individuals to develop environmental awareness and engage in pro-environmental behaviors. Our findings reveal that individuals are more likely to take action when faced with immediate and urgent individual-level negative impacts. Conversely, they are less inclined to act in response to long-term and seemingly minor community-level environmental risks. These insights enhance our understanding of the psychological mechanisms linking environmental risks to pro-environmental behaviors and underscore the importance of addressing negative impacts that may not appear serious in the present.

环境风险会造成不同程度的负面影响，可分为微观层面的个人影响和宏观层面的社会和生态影响。尽管大量研究表明，面对环境风险，个人会采取行动保护环境，但这种行为的内在机制却没有得到足够的关注，尤其是对于直接由环境条件产生的负面影响。本研究旨在从风险管理的角度出发，探讨在应对各种环境风险的不利后果时，人们的环保意识和行为之间存在的差异。利用 2021 年中国社会综合调查（CGSS）的数据，我们将环境风险的负面影响分为两类：个人层面和社区层面。我们研究了哪些具体的负面影响会促使个人培养环境意识并参与环保行为。我们的研究结果表明，在面对个人层面的直接和紧急负面影响时，个人更有可能采取行动。相反，对于长期的、看似微小的社区层面的环境风险，他们则不太愿意采取行动。这些见解加深了我们对环境风险与亲环境行为之间的心理机制的理解，并强调了应对当前可能并不严重的负面影响的重要性。

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Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament 对于脾气暴躁的儿童来说，住房条件不达标与自我调节之间的不利关系更为突出

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102473

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Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change 关心自己的遗产与建设性地应对气候变化有关

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102471

Climate change is an existential threat facing humankind, and one that we must productively cope with as its most severe consequences come to pass. In the present investigation we theorize that one way that people may cope with an existential threat is through personal legacy-building efforts. In three correlational studies (N = 855) including samples from the U.S. and a diverse global cohort including the Global South and East, we found that people construe their proenvironmental behaviors as legacy-building activities, and that doing so relates to the perceived effectiveness of a behavior, as well as the reported frequency of engaging in a behavior. Further, we found that people who were motivated to leave a legacy grounded in the desire to have a positive impact on others also tended to be more concerned about climate change, but not paralyzed by such concern, indicated by a negative or non-significant correlation with climate change anxiety, a positive correlation with constructive hope and active coping, and negative correlations with hope based in denial and avoidant coping.

气候变化是人类面临的生存威胁，也是我们必须积极应对的威胁，因为它将带来最严重的后果。在本次调查中，我们推测人们应对生存威胁的一种方式是通过个人遗产建设。在三项相关研究（N = 855）（包括来自美国和全球不同地区（包括全球南部和东部）的样本）中，我们发现，人们将自己的环保行为视为遗产建设活动，这与他们对行为有效性的感知以及报告的行为频率有关。此外，我们还发现，那些出于对他人产生积极影响的愿望而愿意留下遗产的人也往往更加关注气候变化，但并没有因此而瘫痪，这表现在与气候变化焦虑呈负相关或不显著相关，与建设性希望和积极应对呈正相关，而与基于否认的希望和回避应对呈负相关。

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Is greenspace in the eye of the beholder? Exploring perceived and objective greenspace exposure effects on mental health 绿地是否尽收眼底？探索绿地暴露对心理健康的感知和客观影响

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102468

Background

This study explores the relationship between greenspace and perceived stress, anxiety, and depression, and specifically how perceived and objective greenspace exposure relate to these outcomes. It also explores whether race and socioeconomic status (SES) influence perceived and objective greenspace exposure.

Methods

We used structural equation models (SEMs) to assess the combined impacts of perceived greenspace (a latent construct that included greenspace abundance, visibility, access, usage, quality) and objective greenspace (NDVI within a 300-m buffer of residence) exposures on mental health outcomes (perceived stress, anxiety, and depression), adjusted for SES (using a latent variable that combined income, education, employment), race, ethnicity, age, and cohabiting status from a cross-sectional survey on greenspace and mental health in Denver, CO that ran from November 2019 to April 2021. We compared the strength of pathways between perceived and objective greenspace measures and mental health outcomes, as well as those between SES/race/ethnicity and greenspace measures.

Results

Perceived greenspace exposure was directly associated with reduced anxiety; objective greenspace was only indirectly associated with reduced anxiety, through perceived greenspace. Perceived—but not objective—greenspace exposure was associated with lower depression with borderline statistical significance. SES was statistically significantly associated with higher objective greenspace (a direct impact) and perceived greenspace (direct impact and indirect impact mediated by objective greenspace), which suggests that some, but not all, of differential perceptions of greenspace exposure by SES are due to differential levels of objective greenspace exposure by SES.

Conclusion

Our study shows that perceived greenspace exposure may be an integral part of how objective greenspace exposure confers mental health benefits, particularly anxiety. SES may also play a role not just in influencing objective greenspace exposure, but also in shaping peoples’ perceptions of greenspace, which are unmeasured in most objective greenspace exposure measures.

背景本研究探讨了绿地与感知压力、焦虑和抑郁之间的关系，特别是感知和客观绿地暴露与这些结果之间的关系。研究还探讨了种族和社会经济地位（SES）是否会影响感知绿地和客观绿地暴露。方法我们使用结构方程模型（SEMs）来评估感知绿地（包括绿地丰度、可见度、可及性、使用率和质量的潜在结构）和客观绿地（居住地 300 米缓冲区内的 NDVI）暴露对心理健康结果（感知压力、焦虑和抑郁）的综合影响、在科罗拉多州丹佛市进行的一项关于绿地与心理健康的横断面调查显示，从 2019 年 11 月到 2021 年 4 月，在对 SES（使用结合了收入、教育、就业的潜变量）、种族、民族、年龄和同居状况进行调整后，我们得出了 "感知到的压力、焦虑和抑郁 "这一结果。我们比较了感知绿地和客观绿地指标与心理健康结果之间的路径强度，以及社会经济地位/种族/民族与绿地指标之间的路径强度。结果感知绿地暴露与焦虑减少直接相关；客观绿地仅通过感知绿地与焦虑减少间接相关。感知到的绿地与抑郁程度的降低有关，但与客观绿地无关，其相关性在统计学上呈边缘显著性。在统计学上，社会经济地位与较高的客观绿地（直接影响）和感知绿地（直接影响和由客观绿地介导的间接影响）明显相关，这表明，社会经济地位对绿地暴露的不同感知，有一部分（但并非全部）是由于社会经济地位对客观绿地暴露水平的不同造成的。社会经济地位可能不仅在影响客观绿地暴露方面发挥作用，还在塑造人们对绿地的感知方面发挥作用，而大多数客观绿地暴露测量方法都无法测量人们对绿地的感知。

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Compassion questionnaire for animals: Scale development and validation 关爱动物问卷：量表开发与验证

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102470

Objectives

No measure of compassion for animals exists. Previous scales measured empathy or attitudes towards animals. In line with previous compassion questionnaires for self (CQS) and others (CQO), the proposed Compassion Questionnaire for Animals (CQA) aims to operationalize compassion for animals by grounding it in affective, cognitive, behavioral, and interrelatedness dimensions, each representing a set of skills that can be cultivated through training and practice.

Methods

Based on the proposed theoretical approach, the CQA items were developed through consultations with a panel of eight graduate students. A large study was conducted to validate the CQA, investigate the relationship between empathy/compassion for other human beings and compassion for animals, and test the role of gender and age in compassion for animals.

Results

Results suggested the presence of three dimensions along with a global latent variable. Psychometric characteristics of the CQA and its subscales were robust. These findings were additionally supported by convergent and discriminate evidence; as such, the CQA presented strong associations with measures of empathy for animals and nature relatedness. In addition, empathy and compassion for other human beings and for animals were found to be moderately associated. Gender and age were found to be related to compassion for animals, with women and older individuals displaying higher levels of compassion.

Conclusions

The CQA is the first scale that operationalizes compassion for animals as a set of affective, cognitive, behavioral, and interrelatedness skills/abilities with important theoretical and practical implications. Limitations as well as theoretical and practical implications of the CQA are thoroughly discussed.

目标目前还没有衡量对动物同情心的量表。以前的量表测量的是对动物的同情或态度。与之前的自我同情心问卷（CQS）和他人同情心问卷（CQO）相一致，拟议的动物同情心问卷（CQA）旨在通过将对动物的同情心建立在情感、认知、行为和相互关联维度的基础上，使其具有可操作性，每个维度都代表了一套可以通过训练和实践来培养的技能。我们进行了一项大型研究，以验证 CQA，调查对他人的同情/怜悯与对动物的怜悯之间的关系，并测试性别和年龄在对动物的怜悯中的作用。结果结果表明，CQA 存在三个维度和一个总体潜变量。CQA 及其子量表的心理计量学特征稳健。此外，这些结果还得到了收敛性和区分性证据的支持；因此，CQA 与对动物的同情心和自然亲和力的测量结果具有很强的关联性。此外，对其他人和动物的同理心和同情心也有中度关联。结论CQA是第一个将对动物的同情心作为一套情感、认知、行为和相互关联的技能/能力来操作的量表，具有重要的理论和实践意义。本文对 CQA 的局限性以及理论和实践意义进行了深入讨论。

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Publishing in the Journal of Environmental Psychology: Editorial priorities for a second term as co-Editors-in-Chief 在《环境心理学杂志》上发表文章：联合主编第二任期的编辑优先事项

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102456

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The parental perspective of residential environments associated with children's self-regulation 从父母角度看与儿童自我调节有关的居住环境

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102467

Background

The lack of early development of self-regulation (SR) skills in children can significantly impact their future success. Multiple theories emphasize the role of the environment on child development including SR skills, with income level influencing this relationship. The research used a framework that ties together theories on environmental design and establishes a relationship between the physical environment and a child's ability to self-regulate and manage stress. Limited research exists on addressing physical environmental factors in low-income households and how these factors affect children's self-regulation.

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to identify physical environmental factors that can help children deal with stress. The study uses Shanker's self-regulation model and the ecological model to guide the study's data collection and analysis concerning the home environment in relation to child self-regulation from the perspective of caregivers.

Method

This research qualitatively explores affordances factors in the home physical environment in relation to child self-regulation. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and included participants from different income levels and diverse ethnicities.

Findings

Fifteen affordances factors in the home environment were derived from caregivers' perspectives. The key findings of the study include: (1) The more affordance aspects applied to the home physical design, the better the design is for the child's stress management; (2) Supportive environmental factors can be used to solve hindering effects generated by the environment.

背景儿童早期缺乏自我调节（SR）技能的发展会严重影响他们未来的成功。多种理论都强调了环境对儿童发展（包括自我调节技能）的作用，而收入水平则会影响这种关系。这项研究采用了一个将环境设计理论联系起来的框架，并确定了物理环境与儿童自我调节和管理压力能力之间的关系。针对低收入家庭的物质环境因素以及这些因素如何影响儿童自我调节能力的研究十分有限。本研究采用香克的自我调节模型和生态模型来指导研究数据的收集和分析，从照顾者的角度探讨家庭环境与儿童自我调节的关系。数据是通过深入访谈收集的，参与者来自不同的收入水平和不同的种族。研究结果从照顾者的角度得出了 15 个家庭环境的可承受因素。研究的主要发现包括(1)应用于家庭物理设计中的可承受性因素越多，设计就越有利于儿童的压力管理；(2)支持性环境因素可用于解决环境产生的阻碍作用。

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Investigating effect chains from cognitive and noise-induced short-term stress build-up to restoration in an urban or nature setting using 360° VR 利用 360° VR，研究在城市或自然环境中从认知和噪音引起的短期压力积累到恢复的效应链

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102466

Population growth and increasing urbanization leads to growing exposure to traffic noise and a decline in accessible green spaces that could promote restoration from noise-induced stress. The objective of this virtual reality laboratory study was to investigate the effect chains of noise and cognitive demand on the build-up of short-term stress, and subsequent restoration in either a natural green or urban built quiet space. Participants were first exposed to road traffic noise of different sound pressure levels (L_Aeq of 35, 55, or 75 dB), being randomly assigned to passive listening (low cognitive demand) or concurrently performing cognitively demanding tasks (high demand). The stress phase revealed higher levels of perceived stress as well as tonic skin conductance for the high demand over the low demand group, independent of noise exposure. Increasing noise exposure was associated with elevated noise annoyance ratings and lower self-assessed wellbeing. In the subsequent restoration phase, all measures of perceived restoration indicated a clear advantage for green over non-green spaces. Further, participants from the high-demand group who were immersed in the green restorative space displayed significantly lower skin conductance levels than those in the urban built spaces. The findings suggest that exposure to natural green spaces is beneficial for psychological as well as physiological restoration from short-term stress induced by noise and cognitive demand. Our study underlines the important beneficial role of urban green spaces, particularly in densely populated, noisy urban environments.

人口增长和城市化进程的加快导致人们越来越多地暴露在交通噪音中，同时也导致可利用的绿地减少，而绿地可以促进人们从噪音引起的压力中恢复过来。这项虚拟现实实验室研究的目的是调查噪声和认知需求链对短期压力积累的影响，以及随后在自然绿地或城市建筑安静空间中恢复压力的情况。参与者首先暴露在不同声压级（LAeq 为 35、55 或 75 dB）的道路交通噪音中，然后被随机分配到被动聆听（认知需求低）或同时执行认知需求高的任务（需求高）。压力阶段显示，高要求组的感知压力和强直性皮肤传导水平高于低要求组，这与噪音暴露无关。噪声暴露的增加与噪声烦扰等级的升高和自我评估的降低有关。在随后的恢复阶段，所有感知恢复的指标都表明，绿色空间比非绿色空间具有明显优势。此外，与城市建筑空间的参与者相比，沉浸在绿色恢复空间中的高需求组参与者的皮肤电导水平明显较低。研究结果表明，在噪音和认知需求引起的短期压力下，置身于自然绿地有利于心理和生理的恢复。我们的研究强调了城市绿地的重要有益作用，尤其是在人口稠密、噪音较大的城市环境中。

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Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment COVID-19 隔离期间自然景观对心理健康的影响：自然实验

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102455

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily lives of people, and countries worldwide have implemented public health measures that restricted social contact and interactions. Individuals in isolation displayed increased mental health issues, for whom windows are a crucial means of connecting with the outside world. However, few studies have discussed the effect of having a window view on the mental health of individuals in quarantine. This study uses a natural experiment to address this knowledge gap. Between January 27, 2022 and June 19, 2022, individuals in Taiwan who were assigned to quarantine hotel room with various window views were recruited through Facebook groups. Participants completed a baseline assessment at the beginning of their quarantine period that included room and window conditions and mental health conditions, followed by a posttest assessment of the same mental health measures. Questions related to window conditions included the proportions of natural and urban landscapes viewable from their hotel windows, human activities they could observe (flow of people), and their viewshed broadness. Subsequently, this study investigated how visual access to greenness influenced the positive mental health, depression, and stress of the participants before and during quarantine. In total, 81 participants participated. The results of this study indicated that viewing vegetation and the ratio of windows to walls were associated with improved mental health, reduced symptoms of depression, and reduced stress. Specifically, an open view in the room was associated with lower levels of depression (p < 0.001) and stress (p < 0.000). Additionally, viewing people through windows was associated with reduced depressive symptoms (p < 0.006). The results of this study can inform policies for pandemic containment, but also broadly for health care, hospitals, and other related fields.

COVID-19 大流行改变了人们的日常生活，世界各国纷纷实施公共卫生措施，限制社会接触和互动。与世隔绝的人表现出更多的心理健康问题，对他们来说，窗户是与外界联系的重要途径。然而，很少有研究讨论窗户景观对被隔离者心理健康的影响。本研究通过自然实验来弥补这一知识空白。在 2022 年 1 月 27 日至 2022 年 6 月 19 日期间，我们通过 Facebook 群组招募了被分配到拥有不同窗景的隔离酒店房间的台湾人。参与者在隔离期开始时完成了基线评估，包括房间和窗户条件以及心理健康状况，之后又完成了相同心理健康测量的后测评估。与窗户条件相关的问题包括从酒店窗户可看到的自然景观和城市景观的比例、可观察到的人类活动（人流）以及视野的广度。随后，本研究调查了在隔离前和隔离期间，绿色景观对参与者积极心理健康、抑郁和压力的影响。共有 81 人参与了这项研究。研究结果表明，观看植被和窗户与墙壁的比例与改善心理健康、减少抑郁症状和减轻压力有关。具体来说，室内视野开阔与抑郁（p <0.001）和压力（p <0.000）水平较低有关。此外，透过窗户看人也与抑郁症状的减少有关（p < 0.006）。这项研究的结果可以为遏制大流行病的政策提供参考，同时也可以为医疗保健、医院和其他相关领域提供广泛的参考。

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What facilitates the socio-spatial reattachment after a disaster? A sense of place approach 是什么促进了灾后社会空间的重新整合？场所感方法

IF 6.1 1区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102454

Disasters disrupt the socio-spatial bonds of the people and communities that they affect. Even though there is a large body of research on the impacts that these events produce, we know less about how people reconnect to transformed environments. To understand how the re-establishment of ties is experienced, in this study, we examine how sense of place develops in post-disaster settings. We conducted 18 group interviews and 80 walking interviews (n = 205), distributed across three cases of emblematic disasters in Chile caused by a volcanic eruption, an earthquake and tsunami, and a fire. We used thematic analysis to examine these interviews. Results show that sense of place, in connection with the re-establishment of bonds, is produced in the assemblage of natural, material, personal, and community aspects, grouped into three major topics: appropriation of space, opening of the self, and community activation. We discuss the relevance of natural landscapes and socio-ecological networks for well-being, as well as the need to address the psychosocial working-through dimension in reconstruction policies. We conclude that sense of place is an integrative theoretical-analytic tool that makes it possible to examine the configurations of socio-spatial reattachment in individuals affected by disasters.

灾害破坏了受其影响的人们和社区的社会空间联系。尽管对这些事件造成的影响已有大量研究，但我们对人们如何与改变后的环境重新建立联系却知之甚少。为了了解人们是如何重新建立联系的，我们在本研究中探讨了在灾后环境中地方感是如何形成的。我们进行了 18 次小组访谈和 80 次步行访谈（n = 205），这些访谈分布在智利由火山爆发、地震和海啸以及火灾引起的三个标志性灾难案例中。我们采用主题分析法对这些访谈进行了研究。结果表明，地方感与纽带的重建有关，是在自然、物质、个人和社区等方面的组合中产生的，分为三大主题：空间的占有、自我的开放和社区的激活。我们讨论了自然景观和社会生态网络与福祉的相关性，以及在重建政策中解决社会心理工作层面的必要性。我们的结论是，地方感是一种综合性的理论分析工具，它使我们有可能研究受灾害影响的个人的社会空间再归属配置。

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