How does air pollution risk perception affect residents’ subjective well-being? A structural equation model approach

Zexin Li, Biqi Mao, Changlin Ao, Lishan Xu and Nan Jiang

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2024, vol. 67, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Air pollution has caused many risks to people, but little research has been done on the effect of residents’ air pollution risk perception on their subjective well-being. In order to reveal their relationship, this paper divides air pollution risk perception into four dimensions: risk controllability, risk trust, risk acceptability and risk effect, and explores the effects of different dimensions of air pollution risk perception on subjective well-being based on the structural equation model. The results show that risk controllability, risk trust and risk acceptability can improve well-being, while risk effect can reduce well-being, and air quality satisfaction plays a mediating role. There are also internal influencing mechanisms among different air pollution risk perceptions. Particularly, in areas with poor air quality, risk controllability had a negative association with air quality satisfaction, and higher risk effect corresponded to a higher degree of risk controllability. This paper provides some suggestions for environmental management from the perspective of risk perception.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2094226

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