'Freedom From Fear and Want' and Our Psychological Response to Environmental Changes

doi:10.1017/prp.2017.11

	'Freedom From Fear and Want' and Our Psychological Response to Environmental Changes
	Wei, Zi-Han 1,2; Tao, Rui 1,2; Liu, Huan 1,2,3; Li, Shu1,2
摘要	Freedom from fear and freedom from want are two of the fundamental freedoms and likely related to changes in the environment. It has usually been assumed that our subjective feelings should change accordingly with changes in the objective environment. However, two counterintuitive effects reviewed in this article imply a rather complex psychological mechanism behind how people respond to environmental changes and strive for the freedom from fear and want. The first is the 'psychological typhoon eye' effect, in which the closer people are to hazards, the calmer they feel. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but the mechanism behind this effect remains unclear. The findings are important for future post-disaster interventions and helpful for policy makers in risk management and researchers in risk studies. The second effect is the 'town dislocation' effect, wherein although inhabitants' objective quality of life is improved during the urbanisation process, the projected endorsement and rated social ambience of town residents is lower than that of residents in the country and in the city; this effect is mediated by social support. The findings have implications for how to better assess the urbanisation process and how to improve people's affective appraisals of their living environment.
关键词	environmental changes psychological typhoon eye town dislocation effect
	2017
语种	英语
DOI	10.1017/prp.2017.11
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1834-4909
卷号	11
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS关键词	PLACE ATTACHMENT ; RISK ; PERCEPTION ; CHINA ; URBANIZATION ; NEIGHBORHOOD ; EARTHQUAKE ; PROVINCE ; SUPPORT ; QUALITY
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000419297400005
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China(31471005) ; Foundation for the Supervisor of Beijing Excellent Doctoral Dissertation(20138012501) ; CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y5CX052003)
引用统计	被引频次：5[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/22298
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Nanchang Univ, Nanchang, Jiangxi, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wei, Zi-Han,Tao, Rui,Liu, Huan,et al. 'Freedom From Fear and Want' and Our Psychological Response to Environmental Changes[J]. JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY,2017,11.
APA	Wei, Zi-Han,Tao, Rui,Liu, Huan,&Li, Shu.(2017).'Freedom From Fear and Want' and Our Psychological Response to Environmental Changes.JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY,11.
MLA	Wei, Zi-Han,et al."'Freedom From Fear and Want' and Our Psychological Response to Environmental Changes".JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY 11(2017).