How Radical Is Too Radical? Public Perception of Taiwanese Environmental Nonprofit Organizations’ Activism*

Liu, Li‐Yin

doi:10.1111/ssqu.12507

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“…First, existing research justified the value of selecting worldview survey items in existing research to measure cultures [29,[53][54][55]. Second, research on Asian countries have found limitations and challenges by using measures developed for research in the United States [8,56].…”

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Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Zeng

Jiang

Yuan

2020

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Mixed evidence exists regarding the relationship between environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior. This study uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center of Ecological Civilization (CEC) of China University of Geosciences from December 2015 to March 2016 and examines how cultural bias influences environmental risk perception and behavior. We found that an individual's pro-environmental behavior is not only influenced by environmental risk perception, but also by his or her cultural worldviews. Built on culture theory (CT), our empirical results suggest that young Chinese people are more located in "high-group" culture, where egalitarian culture and hierarchical culture dominate. The higher scores of hierarchical and egalitarian cultures of Chinese youth, the more likely they are to protect the environment. Moreover, the relationship between cultural worldviews and pro-environmental behaviors are mediated by perceived environmental risks. culture influences pro-environmental behavior directly. This study also tries to test the generalizability of CT by applying CT to non-Western countries.This paper uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center for Ecological Civilization of China University of Geosciences (CEC) from December 2015 to March 2016. Our sample includes 8084 students from 152 universities in 30 provinces across China, who were surveyed on the Internet. This research makes contributions in four aspects. First, this large-scale data allows us to map the distribution of environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior among young people in China. Second, this paper is the first research testing the influence of individuals' cultural worldviews on pro-environmental behavior in China. More specifically, we test the effects of culture worldviews, environmental risk perception and other control variables, including knowledge and demographics, on pro-environmental behavior. Third, this paper analyzes how the relationship between risk culture and pro-environmental behavior is mediated by an individual's cultural bias. Fourth, Douglas (1982) used the "grid-group" framework to analyze how the relations between individuals and society determine people's perception of risk. CT was then introduced by Wildavsky to study politics in the United States and was applied to many western countries [23]. However, there is only a few pieces of research on China [21,22]. This study will contribute to improve CT's generalizability by applying CT to Chinese context and providing some implications for measuring culture based on existing research.The paper starts with a review of CT and its application in China. Based on the theory and existing research on the relationships among cultures, environmental risk perception, and pro-environmental behavior, we suggest three sets of research hypotheses in Section 2. Section 3 introduces data, variables, and methods used to test our hypotheses. Section 4 describes the result of our data testing and examines its robustness. Section 5 is t...

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Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Zeng

Jiang

Yuan

2020

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“…Second, one‐way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were used to explore whether there were significant differences in value congruence, public support and compliance among the four cultural types. As in previous CT research (Jones, 2011; Liu, 2018; Song, 2014; Yuan et al, 2022), each respondent was assigned to a dominant or strongest culture: the culture on which they scored highest. More specifically, standardized scores of each cultural bias were ranked and the culture that the respondent scored highest on was coded as the respondent's dominant culture.…”

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Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yuan

Swedlow

2022

Review of Policy Research

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Public support for and voluntary compliance with protective policy measures are crucial to mitigating the spread of infectious disease. However, it is unclear why and how people with diverse cultural biases support particular protective policies. Relying on the Cultural Theory (CT) of risk, we hypothesize that value congruence with social distancing and a vaccine mandate during the COVID‐19 pandemic influences the level of public support for and compliance with these protective policies. Analyzing a Chinese nationwide sample, we find that the effects of cultural biases on public support and compliance vary not only with cultural biases but by how these are mediated through value congruence with particular protective policies. As hypothesized, hierarchical cultural biases increase public support for and compliance with social distancing and a vaccine mandates both directly and (indirectly) through value congruence. By contrast, as hypothesized, fatalistic cultural biases decrease public support for and compliance with social distancing both directly and (indirectly) through lack of value congruence and individualistic biases decrease public support for and compliance with social distancing and a vaccine mandate both directly and (indirectly) through lack of value congruence. However, the hypothesized effects of fatalistic biases did not hold for the vaccine mandate. We discuss reasons why these latter hypotheses regarding the vaccine mandate were not validated and suggest that risk analysts and communicators do more to discover and explain why particular protective policies are congruent with diverse cultural values.

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“…The grid dimension refers to the importance of socially imposed rules; that is, the grid dimension measures the extent to which individuals are restricted by the phenomenon of role differentiation, which imposes constraints on their actions (Ney & Verweij, 2014;Swedlow, 2011Swedlow, , 2014. The group dimension refers to the extent to which collective thinking is valued (Liu, 2018) or the extent to which people's lives are controlled by the group they live in (Douglas, 2007). Based on these two dimensions, cultural worldviews can be categorized into four different types: hierarchism (high group/low grid), egalitarianism (high group, high grid), individualism (low group/low grid), and fatalism (low group/high grid).…”

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Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates

Brough,

Liu,

Yeh

2023

Review of Policy Research

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With heated political and public debate over government vaccine mandates, COVID‐19 offers an opportunity to better understand the role of policy justifications on people's perceptions towards a policy. Through this study, we aim to move beyond the partisan and ideological arguments for and against vaccine mandates to illustrate how individuals' worldviews, based on Cultural Theory, can better explain why people have different perceptions towards vaccine mandates. Using the judiciary and judicial reasoning as the setting, and controlling for individuals' preexisting opinion on COVID‐19 vaccines, we hypothesize that people who prefer vaccine mandates will agree with judicial reasoning that appeals towards individualistic and hierarchical statements. Additionally, we hypothesize that those who have confidence in the judiciary will agree with individualistic and hierarchical statements. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment through Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results confirm the hypotheses.

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How Radical Is Too Radical? Public Perception of Taiwanese Environmental Nonprofit Organizations’ Activism*

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Judicial reasoning, individual cultural types, and support for COVID‐19 vaccine mandates

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