关键词: 征迁改造, 风险感知, 政府信任, 焦虑情绪, 支持意愿

Abstract:

Focusing on residents’ concerns and intentions under people-oriented ideas and respecting public opinion are the core concepts for promoting the new urbanization and relocation transformation. Nevertheless, most existing studies merely focus on the impacts of residents’ multiple types of perceptions on their behavioral intention to support the urban policy. Less attention is paid to the role of residents’ emotions in the relationship between perceptions and intention. Through qualitative research, this paper develops a multi-dimensional conception of risk perception towards housing demolition and relocation, comprising livelihood risk, adaptation risk, and benefit risk. Furthermore, it establishes a perception-emotion-intention model, in which perceptions are represented by risk perception and trust in government, and anxiety plays an intermediary role between residents’ perceptions and policy support intention. The results from a large-scale questionnaire survey conducted in 18 pilot regions of China’s new-type urbanization illustrate that anxiety partially mediates the negative effect of risk perception on residents’ intention to support. Trust in government has a direct positive effect on residents’ intention, as well as an indirect effect through the mediator of anxiety. Moreover, the direct effect is significantly greater than the indirect one. Theoretically, this paper integrates anxiety as an important mediator into the theoretical framework for the formation of residents’ behavioral intention. Practically, the above findings provide knowledge for better promoting the construction of new-type urbanization and avoiding mass incidents by timely relieving residents’ anxiety, implementing differentiated policies for different vulnerable groups, facilitating the expression of public opinions, and enhancing the credibility of grassroots governments.

Key words: housing demolition and relocation, risk perception, trust in government, anxiety, intention to support