空气污染对科学家感知科学传播重要性的影响

国内外学者对科学家参与科学传播的意愿和行为进行了大量研究，但对科学家感知科学传播的重要性如何受到自然环境及个体心理特征的影响尚缺乏研究。本文基于压力转换理论，建立不同主动性人格的科学家如何应对空气污染的两个假设，并通过匹配官方公布的空气污染监测数据与基于问卷调查的科学家自我报告数据对假设进行检验。结果发现：面对空气污染时，强主动性的科学家会显著增强对科学传播重要性的感知，这种感知的改变是通过自我效能感增强实现的；而弱主动性的科学家在面对空气污染时，则不会改变对科学传播重要性的感知。该研究为理解外部环境压力下科学家如何对科学传播重要性做出判断提供了新的视角与证据。

Air pollution and perceived importance of science communication: The role of proactive personality and self efficacy

Although literature have found many factors influence scientist’s science communication participation, the role of air pollution and scientist’s personality in science communication has not been investigated. Drawing on stress transfer theory, this paper first developed two hypotheses about how scientist reacts under different air pollution conditions, and then tested these hypotheses by matching scientist self-reported survey data and monitored air pollution data. The result showed that under air pollution condition, scientists with high proactive personality perceived the importance of science communication significantly higher than that of scientists with low proactive personality. The reason is that self efficacy meditated the effect of air pollution on the perceived importance of science communication. These results provided new perspective and empirical evidence for understanding how scientists react under negative environmental stress.