The Influence Study Of Chongqing Urban Residents’Low-carbon Life Idea To Their Low-carbon Lifestyle

In recent years, all kinds of natural disasters occurred frequently within global range, that seriously hindered the sustainable development of the human and posed a threat to the health of human beings. How to reduce the occurrence of these natural disasters has become a problem that human society must work together to face and solve. Scientific research found that human activity is one of the main cause of high carbon emissions, high carbon emissions will cause a series of problems:extreme climate significantly increased, sea level rise, the food crisis, the shortage of water resources and so on. Therefore, energy conservation and emission reduction has become China’s basic state policy. Chongqing is one of China’s first batch low-carbon pilot city. As the progressing of Chongqing coordination of urban and rural household registration system reform,more and more farmers of Chongqing will become urban residents, the huge number of urban residents means a great life energy consumption as well as huge amounts of carbon emissions. Faced with severe situation, Chongqing must finishes the energy and emission reduction tasks during the period of 12th Five Year Plan, perform well in the low-carbon pilot cities work, so Chongqing need to strengthen the education of chongqing urban residents, fully arouse the enthusiasm of them, make them form the low-carbon lifestyle. At present, studies about low-carbon life idea and low-carbon behavior is very little. Therefore, this study explores the influence of Chongqing urban residents’ low-carbon life idea to their low-carbon lifestyle. This study is of important significance to the strengthening low-carbon propaganda and education of urban residents in Chongqing, make them to establish a low-carbon life idea, popularize low-carbon lifestyle.The results of this study indicate that:(1)The two questionnaires we work out has good reliability and validity, and comply with requirements of questionnaire establishment in psychometrics, and can as research tools in this study.(2)The Chongqing urban residents low-carbon life idea questionnaire has three dimensions:cognition of low-carbon life, grasp of low-carbon knowledge and yearning of low-carbon life. The score shows that Chongqing urban residents’ yearning of low-carbon life> cognition of low-carbon life> grasp of low-carbon knowledge.(3) Chongqing urban residents’yearning for low-carbon life have great differences between the sexes, female scored higher than male. Chongqing urban residents’ low-carbon life idea have extremely remarkable differences among different ages, people over the age of 40 get the highest score in cognition of low-carbon life and yearning of low-carbon life. Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon life idea have extremely remarkable differences among different degrees, degree is higher, the higher the score.(4) Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon life idea have extremely remarkable differences among different occupations. Civil servants get the highest score in three dimensions, self-employed person get the lowest scored in three dimensions. Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon life idea have extremely remarkable differences among different family monthly incomes. People above 4000 yuan in family monthly incomes get the highest score in three dimensions.(5) The Chongqing urban residents low-carbon lifestyle questionnaire has three dimensions:save energy behavior, temperance consumption behavior and low-carbon propaganda behavior. The score shows that Chongqing urban residents’save energy behavior>temperance consumption behavior>low-carbon propaganda behavior.(6) Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon lifestyle have great differences between the sexes, male scored higher than female in temperance consumption behavior and low-carbon propaganda behavior. Chongqing urban residents’temperance consumption behavior and low-carbon propaganda behavior have extremely remarkable differences among different ages, the older ones scored better. Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon lifestyle have extremely remarkable differences among different degrees, people of the elementary school degrees get the lowest score in energy saving behavior, people of senior high school and technical secondary school degrees get the highest score in temperance consumption behavior and low-carbon propaganda behavior.(7) Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon lifestyle have extremely remarkable differences among different occupations.Civil servants get the highest score in energy saving behavior. Medical workers get the highest score in moderate consumption behavior. Civil servants, state-owned enterprise worker and self-employed person get high score in low-carbon propaganda behavior. Chongqing urban residents’low-carbon lifestyle have extremely remarkable differences among different family monthly incomes. People under 2000 yuan in family monthly incomes get the lowest score in three dimensions. People between 2000 and 2999 yuan in family monthly incomes get the highest score in moderate consumption behavior.(8) Significant positive correlation was found between Chongqing urban residents’ low-carbon life idea dimensions and total score and Chongqing urban residents’ low-carbon lifestyle dimensions and total score. Low-carbon life idea is an important influencing factor of low-carbon lifestyle. Grasp of low-carbon knowledge play the most important role in the prediction of low-carbon lifestyle.