中国科学院心理研究所机构知识库

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 observed. To understand the phenomenon, we investigated the role of anxiety in mediating the relationship between haze perception and health preventive behavior and further proposed the moderating effect of future self-continuity. Notably, self-psychology believes that Chinese people’s self-concept includes intimate others, which has been neglected in previous literature on future self-continuity. Regarding this, we created the concept of future ‘big self’ continuity by incorporating future descendants into the ‘small self’. We thus hypothesized that one’s care and love for his/her future self and descendants moderated the impact of anxiety on health preventive behavior. 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 perception 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 coping and provided insights into how to nudge behavior change in public health.

国家自然科学基金面上项目(71771209);; 国家社会科学基金重大项目(19ZDA358)