Driving factors of residents' participation in air pollution prevention and control under air quality improvement policies

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The effectiveness of air quality improvement policies is influenced by residents' willingness to participate. Therefore, this study collected 322 valid samples using a questionnaire survey. Through empirical analysis, it explores how residents' psychological perceptions regarding the detrimental effects of air pollution influence their readiness to engage in pollution prevention and control efforts. The findings demonstrate that the influence coefficients of probabilistic distance (0.583), spatial distance (0.461), social distance (0.327), and temporal distance (0.094) are significant. The findings demonstrate that all factors related to psychological distance significantly and positively influence residents' willingness to participate, with probabilistic distance having the strongest effect and temporal distance the weakest. This study confirms that psychological distance is an important factor driving residents' participation in air pollution prevention and control, thus providing a reference for public communication strategies in environmental policy formulation.