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The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China
Local communities and their opinion on shale gas exploitation (SGE) play an essential role in the implementation of energy policies, while little is known about the reasoning process underpinning the acceptance of SGE. The present study develops a conceptual framework to examine the psychological pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7557578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32947827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186736 |
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author | Yao, Liuyang Sui, Dangchen Liu, Xiaotong Fan, Hui |
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description | Local communities and their opinion on shale gas exploitation (SGE) play an essential role in the implementation of energy policies, while little is known about the reasoning process underpinning the acceptance of SGE. The present study develops a conceptual framework to examine the psychological process of residents’ acceptance of local SGE, in which the impacts of trust, knowledge, and fairness are mediated by risk and benefit perceptions. Structural equation modeling has been applied to analyze the hypothesized relationships based on a dataset of 825 households in China’s largest shale gas field. Our results indicate that residents’ perceived fairness and trust positively affect their benefit perceptions and negatively affect their risk perceptions, which results in positive influences on acceptance, and knowledge of SGE’s environmental impacts positively affects perceived risks, which results in a negative influence on acceptance. Moreover, residents’ acceptance is primarily determined by their benefit perception, followed by perceived fairness, and knowledge is the least important determinant. Thus, our study contributes to the literature by exploring the structural relationships between various psychological predictors and the acceptance toward SGE, and the results from our empirical survey provide insight into designing appropriate strategies in the process of generating and communicating shale policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-75575782020-10-20 The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China Yao, Liuyang Sui, Dangchen Liu, Xiaotong Fan, Hui Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Local communities and their opinion on shale gas exploitation (SGE) play an essential role in the implementation of energy policies, while little is known about the reasoning process underpinning the acceptance of SGE. The present study develops a conceptual framework to examine the psychological process of residents’ acceptance of local SGE, in which the impacts of trust, knowledge, and fairness are mediated by risk and benefit perceptions. Structural equation modeling has been applied to analyze the hypothesized relationships based on a dataset of 825 households in China’s largest shale gas field. Our results indicate that residents’ perceived fairness and trust positively affect their benefit perceptions and negatively affect their risk perceptions, which results in positive influences on acceptance, and knowledge of SGE’s environmental impacts positively affects perceived risks, which results in a negative influence on acceptance. Moreover, residents’ acceptance is primarily determined by their benefit perception, followed by perceived fairness, and knowledge is the least important determinant. Thus, our study contributes to the literature by exploring the structural relationships between various psychological predictors and the acceptance toward SGE, and the results from our empirical survey provide insight into designing appropriate strategies in the process of generating and communicating shale policies. MDPI 2020-09-16 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7557578/ /pubmed/32947827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186736 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yao, Liuyang Sui, Dangchen Liu, Xiaotong Fan, Hui The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title | The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title_full | The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title_fullStr | The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title_full_unstemmed | The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title_short | The Psychological Process of Residents’ Acceptance of Local Shale Gas Exploitation in China |
title_sort | psychological process of residents’ acceptance of local shale gas exploitation in china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7557578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32947827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186736 |
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