Research Of Public Risk Perception And Coping Behaviour In Hazy Weather

Hazy weather occurs regularly in China in recent days. On one hand, it does serious harm to people’s health and life.On the other hand, it ignites the people’s concerns and psychological panic about the environment., reducing the social well-being of the public and affecting social stability and long-term development of our society. The haze weather is the most urgent problem to solve at present. The study of haze is rare now and the former research mainly focused on the cause of the haze, the warning systems and the prevention measures about the haze. The related research lacks public risk perception and response behavior.about haze weather. Therefore, it is conducive to establish emergency management mechanism and emergency measures by studying public risk perception and their coping behaviors. In a word, he study has important theoretical significance and practical significance.The paper firstly concludes the risk cognition achievements in domestic and foreign by combining the haze weather case. Then this paper analysizes public risk cognition, the trigger factors related haze weather and the public’s response to the haze in theory. The trigger factors which lead to haze weather includes individual characteristic factors and social factors. Social factors also exert the risk of cognitive influence to public by the flow of information. According to related analysis, the paper constructs the haze weather research model of public risk perception and coping behavior, then puts forward the research hypothesis, at last verifies the assumptions through the questionnaire survey and data analysis. The main conclusions include:information has significant effect on public risk perception, of which positive information and public risk perception were negatively correlated, negative information and public risk perception were positively correlated. Public risk recognition to haze weather would enables the public to take a variety of coping behaviors in order to reduce the inner tension and anxiety. Risk perception as well as defensive coping behaviors and positive coping behaviors were positively correlated. The higher the degree of risk cognition people take, the higher the frequency of various coping behaviors. According to the results of the analysis, the paper proposes the related emergency management suggestions including improving the way of information transmission, strengthening risk communication and psychological intervention and improve the government’s crisis response capacity, hoping to offer beneficial suggestions, to similar crisis coping.