The Relationship Between Climate Change Knowledge And Pro-environmental Behavior Of Junior High School Students

Climate change is one of the global environmental problems.China is a country vulnerable to climate change.The government also pays close attention to climate change and adheres to ecological civilization construction.Teenagers' cognition of climate change and pro-environment behavior will affect the future ecological environment of our country.At the same time,early puberty is the key to understanding the issue of climate change,climate change knowledge is the important factors influencing the individual cognitive to climate change,Therefore,based on the perspective of junior high school students,this paper explores the relationship between climate change knowledge and pro-environmental behavior,and on this basis,examines the mechanism of the role of climate change risk perception and climate change attitude in the relationship between climate change knowledge and pro-environmental behavior.In this study,436 junior high school students in Tianjin were surveyed by questionnaires on climate change knowledge,climate change risk perception questionnaire,climate change attitude questionnaire and pro-environment behavior questionnaire.SPSS.22 and AMOS.22 were used for statistical analysis of the data.The results are as follows:(1)junior high school students' climate change knowledge,climate change risk perception,climate change attitude and pro-environment behavior are above the average level.(2)there are significant differences in climate change attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors in grade level,while there are no significant differences in climate change knowledge and climate change risk perception in grade level.Climate change knowledge,climate change risk perception,climate change attitude and pro-environment behavior have no significant difference in gender,non-only child and parents' educational background.(3)climate change attitude,climate change knowledge and pro-environment behavior are significantly positively correlated with each other,climate change risk perception is significantly positively correlated with climate change attitude and climate change knowledge,and climate change risk perception is positively correlated with pro-environment behavior.(4)climate change risk perception and climate change attitude play a complete chain mediating role between climate change knowledge and pro-environment behavior.This study draws the following conclusions:(1)climate change knowledge can positively predict climate change risk perception and climate change attitudes.(2)climate change attitudes play a completely mediating role between climate change knowledge and pro-environmental behavior.(3)climate change knowledge can influence pro-environmental behavior through the chain mediating effect of climate change risk perception and climate change attitude.