Sociodemographic characteristics, cultural biases, and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1226.2018.00436

	Sociodemographic characteristics, cultural biases, and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China
	Zhong, FangLei ; Guo, AiJun ; Yin, XiaoJuan ; Cui, JinFeng ; Yang, Xiao; Zhang, YanQiong
	2018-10
发表期刊	SCIENCES IN COLD AND ARID REGIONS
卷号	10 期号:5 页码:436-446
摘要	Natural resource-management studies have become increasingly attentive to the influences of human factors. Among these, cultural biases shape people's responses to changes in natural resource systems. Several studies have applied grid-group cultural theory to assess the effects of multiple value biases among stakeholders on natural resource management. We developed and administered a questionnaire in the Heihe River Basin (n = 364) in northwestern China to investigate the appropriateness of applying this theory in the Chinese context of natural resource management. The results revealed various cultural biases among the respondents. In descending order of prevalence, these biases were hierarchism (46.98%), individualism (26.65%), egalitarianism (18.96%), and fatalism (2.78%), with the remaining respondents (4.67%) evidencing no obvious bias. Our empirical study revealed respondents' worldviews and the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on cultural biases, as theoretically posited. Among the variables examined, age had a positive and significant effect across all biases except individualism. The correlation of income to all cultural biases was consistently negative. Only education had a negative and significant effect across all biases. Women were found to adhere to egalitarianism, whereas men adhered to individualism and hierarchism. Thus, grid-group cultural theory was found to be appropriate in the Chinese context, with gender, age, education, and income evidently accounting for cultural biases. Relationships between environmental attitudes and cultural biases conformed with the hypothesis advanced by grid-group cultural theory. This finding may be of value in explaining individuals' environmental attitudes and facilitating the development and implementation of natural resource-management policies.
关键词	sociodemographic characteristics environmental attitudes cultural biases grid-group cultural theory rural residents Northwestern China
DOI	10.3724/SP.J.1226.2018.00436
收录类别	ESCI ; CSCD
ISSN	1674-3822
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography
WOS类目	Geography, Physical
WOS记录号	WOS:000457528800009
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
原始文献类型	Article
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.lzufe.edu.cn/handle/39EH0E1M/774
专题	工商管理学院外语学院
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Ecoenvironm & Resources, Key Lab Ecohydrol Inland River Basin, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China; 2.Lanzhou Univ, Sch Econ, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China; 3.Gansu Acad Social Sci, Inst Publ Policy, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China; 4.Lanzhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Foreign Languages, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhong, FangLei,Guo, AiJun,Yin, XiaoJuan,et al. Sociodemographic characteristics, cultural biases, and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China[J]. SCIENCES IN COLD AND ARID REGIONS,2018,10(5):436-446.
APA	Zhong, FangLei,Guo, AiJun,Yin, XiaoJuan,Cui, JinFeng,Yang, Xiao,&Zhang, YanQiong.(2018).Sociodemographic characteristics, cultural biases, and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China.SCIENCES IN COLD AND ARID REGIONS,10(5),436-446.
MLA	Zhong, FangLei,et al."Sociodemographic characteristics, cultural biases, and environmental attitudes: An empirical application of grid-group cultural theory in Northwestern China".SCIENCES IN COLD AND ARID REGIONS 10.5(2018):436-446.