Research On Influencing Factors Of Farmers' Waste Classification And Disposal Behavior Based On The Lewin's Behavior Model

At present,the world is facing a series of serious problems caused by domestic waste pollution,especially in rural areas due to multiple reasons,such as the dual structure of urban and rural areas,the lack of a relatively comprehensive domestic waste disposal system,the random storage of waste,and mixed disposal are not reasonable.The method may bring more serious environmental pollution,so how to effectively control domestic waste pollution has become a topic of concern for scholars at home and abroad.Scholars believe that the effective way to control domestic waste pollution should be to encourage the source producers of domestic waste to actively implement the classification and disposal behavior,and to sort and dispose domestic waste from the source,so as to reduce the pressure of waste terminal disposal.Rural domestic waste pollution is an environmental problem that cannot be ignored.As the main body for the implementation of domestic waste classification and disposal behavior,farmers' existing waste disposal methods such as random stacking,direct landfilling or incineration need to be changed urgently.How to make farmers change the current unreasonable waste disposal behavior from the source and promote the effective implementation of domestic waste classification and disposal behavior has become the research focus of scholars.However,the existing researches mostly focus on the Theory of Planned Behavior,the A-B-C Theory,the Theory of Reasoned Action,etc.,and analyze the impact process of individual household waste classification and disposal behavior in different situations.Scholars also found that the fruitful results of the above studies explained the mechanism of individual household waste classification and disposal behavior to some extent,laying a foundation for follow-up research.However,it is also recognized that most of the studies on the waste classification and disposal behavior by farmers have not been comprehensively considered,and the internal factors and external environmental factors have not been considered systematically.The Lewin's Behavior Model summarizes the internal and external environmental factors that affect individual behavior,and systematically and comprehensively considers the internal and external environmental factors that affect individual environmental behavior.However,there are still few domestic researches on applying The Lewin's Behavior Model to the field of environmental protection,and few scholars have applied it to the research field of the waste classification and disposal behavior by farmers.This study is based on The Lewin's Behavior Model,using The Structural EquationModel to analyze the influencing factors of the waste classification and disposal behavior.Through the analysis of the influence mechanism of the internal and external environmental factors on the farmers' waste classification and disposal willingness and behavior under the framework of The Lewin's Behavior Model.Based on this,the research hypothesis and theoretical analysis framework of this paper are proposed,and then uses the existing research results and field interviews to develop and design the scale.598 field survey data in Shaanxi,Gansu,and Hebei provinces are used as the sample database for this study,and The Structural Equation Model are used to verify the influence degree and action direction of internal and external environmental factors on the willingness and behavior of farmers' waste classification and disposal under the framework of The Lewin's Behavior Model,the causes of the differences between willingness and behavior were compared and analyzed.Then use Bootstrap method to test whether there is a mediating effect in the farmers' willingness to classify and dispose domestic waste,and explore the role path in the impact process.Based on this,it is verified whether The Lewin's Behavior Model is compatible with the farmers' waste classification and disposal behavior.Finally,corresponding policy recommendations are proposed based on the research results.The research conclusions are as follows:(1)There is a deviation between the willingness of farmers to sort waste and its actual classification and disposal behavior.The phenomenon of willingness higher than the actual behavior is more common.Environmental awareness,economic incentives,and behavioral convenience can all have a significant impact on the farmers' waste classification and disposal willingness,while environmental awareness,environmental skills,economic incentives,and behavioral convenience all have a significant effect on the farmers' waste classification and disposal behavior.The same factors have varying degrees of influence on farmers' willingness and behavior of waste classification and disposal.(2)Among the control variables,the age,physical health,and number of family laborers all have a significant effect on the farmers' willingness to sort and dispose of domestic waste.The control variables that have a significant effect on the farmers' waste classification and disposal behavior are the educational level,physical health,and number of family laborers.(3)Farmers' waste classification and disposal willingness has some partial mediation in the process of environmental awareness and economic incentives on the farmers' waste classification and disposal behavior.Both of them can indirectly affect the classification and disposal behavior through farmers' waste classification and disposal willingness,and they can also directly affect the farmers' waste classification and disposal behavior.The behavioral convenience plays a full mediating role in this impact process,andthe indirect effect is greater than the direct effect.