互联网使用与环境关心——基于CGSS(2010)的多层次分析

将互联网技术相关变量引入环境关心研究,指出个人层面的互联网使用和作为社会情境的互联网普及率通过不同的机制对环境价值观带来型塑效应,从而为现有环境关心研究补充了新的分析视角。对CGSS(2010)的统计分析发现,在个人层面,使用互联网的频率有助于提高环境关心水平。在城市层面,互联网普及率对环境关心具有直接和间接影响。一方面,互联网普及率与环境关心水平之间呈现倒U型关系;另一方面,互联网普及率作为一种社会情境,对教育程度的影响具有调节作用,教育对环境关心水平的影响随互联网普及率的提高而降低。最后讨论环境关心和互联网研究的理论启示和含义。

This article introduces a new analytical perspective of information communication and internet use into environmental concern research,pointing out that individual-level internet use and city-level internet penetration rate have an influence on environmental concern through different mechanisms.Based on the statistical analysis of CGSS(2010),it finds that individual internet use increases the level of environmental concern.City-level internet penetration rate has both direct and indirect effects on environmental concern.For one,internet penetration rate presents an inverted U-curve relationship with environmental concern.For another,internet penetration rate has a moderating effect on education.The theoretical implications for environmental concern and internet studies are also discussed.