中国城市居民环境关心及环境友好行为的性别差异

An Analysis of Gender Difference in the Environmental Concern and Environmentally Friendly Behaviors of Chinese Urban Residents——Based on the research of GSS in 2003

通过分析2003年中国综合社会调查GSS①(城市部分)所得有关环境方面的资料,对中国城市居民的环境关心和环境友好行为的社会性别差异进行了检验。结果发现:中国城市居民的环境关心水平普遍偏低,其中抽象环境关心水平男性高于女性,但实际的环境友好行为比例男性却低于女性;在私人领域内的环境友好行为比例女性高于男性;相较私人环境友好行为而言,男女的公共环境友好行为比例都很低。

Based on the sample survey data about environment from the research of GSS in 2003, the author of this article examined gender differences on Chinese urban residents＇ environmental concern and environmentally friendly behaviors, and came up with the following findings. Firstly, the level of the public＇ s environmental concern is generally low, and the abstract environmental concern of males is higher than that of females, but en- vironmentally friendly behaviors of males is lower than that of females. Secondly, females display higher levels of environmentally friendly behaviors in private fields than males do. Thirdly, both males and females tend to engage in relatively more private behaviors as opposed to public behaviors.