环境相关的健康风险,不稳定的环境中的知识和意识:德国"环境意识研究"的二次数据分析
Annabell Duda1, Doreen Reifegerste1
1Bielefeld School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Frontiers in public health
|October 24, 2024
概括
不稳定的环境表现出较低的环境知识和意识,影响他们对环境健康风险的看法. 有针对性的教育干预对于提高这些弱势群体的环境素养至关重要.
科学领域:
- 环境社会学 环境社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 环境心理学 环境心理学
背景情况:
- 不稳定的环境面临更高的环境风险,并表现出减少的环境意识和行为.
- 了解影响这些群体环境意识的因素对于有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查在不稳定的环境中影响环境意识的因素.
- 检查环境知识和感知与环境有关的健康负担的作用.
主要方法:
- 2018年德国环境意识研究 (N=2017) 的量化二次数据分析.
- 使用ANOVA和邦费罗尼特 hoc测试对不稳定的环境 (n=190) 与其他七个环境进行比较.
- 多重回归分析用于深入研究不稳定的环境.
主要成果:
- 对环境健康负担 (噪音污染) 的看法存在显著差异.
- 与大多数其他群体相比,在不稳定的环境中环境知识较低,与环境认知和性别有关.
- 环境影响在不稳定的环境中高于既定环境,但低于批判性创造性和年轻理想主义的环境.
- 环境认知和与环境影响相关的行为;认知程度高于既定环境,但低于批判性创造性和年轻理想主义环境.
- 与传统,批判创意和年轻理想主义环境相比,在不稳定的环境中,环境行为明显较低.
结论:
- 环境健康负担的认识和知识的差异凸显了为不稳定的环境提供量身定制的教育和支持的需要.
- 进一步的研究应该探索影响这些群体内环境知识和意识的其他因素.
- 发展环境 (健康) 识字技能对于改善对环境信息的理解和参与至关重要.
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