雾霾启动防护行为的边界条件:未来自我连续性的作用

When Does Haze Initiate Health Preventive Behavior:The Impact of Future Self-Continuity

鉴于防护行为相对欠缺的现状,本研究旨在探究雾霾知觉影响防护行为的情绪机制和未来自我连续性在其中的调节作用。结合本土自我心理学,我们将西方的未来自我连续性从“小我”扩展至“大我”,提出包含未来子孙的未来“大我”连续性。研究发现(N=262)雾霾知觉通过焦虑引发防护行为,且该促进作用仅对拥有中等水平以上未来“大我”连续性的个体成立。未来“小我”连续性的调节不显著。研究结果为设计防护行为干预策略提供了思路。

Although air pollution poses great threat to people’s health,insufficient health preventive behavior is ob-served.To understand the phenomenon,we investi-gated the role of anxiety in mediating the relationship between haze perception and health preventive be-havior and further proposed the moderating effect of future self-continuity.We conducted a two-wave survey(separated by one week)on 262 employees in Beijing.Results found a moderated mediation model:Anxiety mediated the relationship between haze per-ception and health preventive behavior;Future‘big self’continuity moderated the impact of anxiety on health preventive behavior but future‘small self’continuity failed to moderate the relationship.That is,individuals with a higher level of care and love for themselves and their descendants reported more health preventive behavior.Our study stressed the role of emotion in explaining environmental risk cop-ing and provided insights into how to nudge behavior change in public health.