Research on the influence mechanism of tourists' recreational involvement on pro-environmental behavior in natural heritage sites from the perspective of embodiment

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1004-9479.2025.01.20230101

Abstract

Abstract:

Tourists' pro-environmental behavior is a key factor affecting the sustainable development of natural heritage sites, and the correlation between individual physical and mental state and the external environment is an important prerequisite for affecting the environmental behavior of tourists in natural heritage sites. Under the guidance of embodied theory, this study integrates recreation involvement, self-efficacy, emotional involvement and pro-environmental behavior into the research framework, takes self-efficacy as the intermediary factor and emotional involvement as the adjustment factor, constructs the driving model of recreation involvement and pro-environmental behavior of tourists in natural heritage sites under the embodied situation, and takes Libo World Natural Heritage Site in Guizhou as a case study. The results show that in the context of natural heritage tourism, recreation involvement has a significant positive impact on tourists' pro-environmental behavior; self-efficacy plays a partial mediating role between recreation involvement and tourists' pro-environmental behavior. Natural intimacy has a significant positive moderating effect on the impact of recreation involvement on tourists' pro-environmental behavior, while ecological fear and ecological responsibility have no significant moderating effect in this process. Tourists' recreation involvement, self-efficacy, natural intimacy and pro-environmental behavior are connected under the interaction of physical and mental subjectivity, perception depth and situational connectivity. Based on this, it is proposed that natural heritage sites should create a good recreational involvement environment for tourists, enhance tourists' self-efficacy, strengthen the emotional connection between tourists and natural heritage sites, and promote the transformation of tourists to pro-environmental behavior.

Key words: embodied theory, recreational involvement, pro-environmental behavior, self-efficacy, emotional involvement

摘要：

旅游者亲环境行为是影响自然遗产地可持续发展的一项关键因素，而个体身心状态与外部环境的关联性是影响自然遗产地旅游者亲环境行为的重要前提。在具身理论的指导下，将游憩涉入、自我效能感、情感卷入和亲环境行为纳入研究框架，以自我效能感为中介因素，情感卷入为调节因素，构建了具身情境下自然遗产地旅游者游憩涉入对亲环境行为的结构方程模型，并以贵州荔波世界自然遗产地为案例地进行实证研究。结果表明，在自然遗产地旅游情境中，游憩涉入对旅游者亲环境行为有显著正向影响；自我效能感在游憩涉入与旅游者亲环境行为之间起部分中介作用；自然亲近感在游憩涉入对旅游者亲环境行为影响过程中具有显著正向调节作用，生态恐惧感、生态责任感在这一过程中调节作用不显著；旅游者游憩涉入、自我效能感、自然亲近感和亲环境行为在身心主体性、感知深度性及情境连接性的交互影响下产生联结。因此，自然遗产地应为旅游者营造良好的游憩涉入环境，增强旅游者自我效能感，加强旅游者与自然遗产地的情感联系，促进旅游者向亲环境行为转变。

关键词: 具身理论, 游憩涉入, 亲环境行为, 自我效能感, 情感卷入

Mengyue XIE, Rui LI, Huomu YANG, Chao ZHENG, Hongmei YIN. Research on the influence mechanism of tourists' recreational involvement on pro-environmental behavior in natural heritage sites from the perspective of embodiment[J]. World Regional Studies, 2025, 34(1): 154-167.

谢梦月, 李瑞, 杨火木, 郑超, 殷红梅. 具身视角下自然遗产地旅游者游憩涉入对亲环境行为的影响机制研究[J]. 世界地理研究, 2025, 34(1): 154-167.

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类别	测量项	标准负荷	Cronbach’s α	CR	AVE
游憩涉入	1.置身于自然遗产地让我感到愉悦	0.681	0.758	0.761	0.516
	2.我的较多休闲活动都和亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动有关	0.699
	3.亲身体验了一个不合适的自然遗产地真令人气恼	0.771
自我效能感	1.置身于自然遗产地时，我觉得我有能力保护好当地环境	0.841	0.921	0.920	0.700
	2.置身于自然遗产地时，我有信心可以保护好当地环境	0.960
	3.置身于自然遗产地时，我会努力保护当地环境	0.916
	4.置身于自然遗产地时，我能约束自己不破坏当地环境	0.713
	5.置身于自然遗产地时，我会想办法对环境做出改变	0.725
自然亲近感	1.身心沉浸在美丽的自然遗产地中，我感觉无比的幸福	0.873	0.893	0.893	0.736
	2.我对亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动有一种无法割舍的依赖	0.863
	3.我享受亲身体验过程中自然遗产地带给我的美的感受	0.838
生态恐惧感	1.当我置身于自然遗产地看到当地的环境恶化让我感到害怕	0.779	0.853	0.854	0.661
	2.当我置身于自然遗产地看到当地的环境问题让我感到焦虑	0.858
	3.当我置身于自然遗产地细想人类对自然遗产地长年累月的破坏可能带来的后果我感到恐惧	0.799
生态责任感	1.亲身体验过程中因看到自然遗产地没有采取充分的保护措施来阻止环境恶化而感到愤怒	0.865	0.848	0.849	0.653
	2.亲身体验过程中因自己没能保护自然遗产地而感到内疚	0.768
	3.亲身体验过程中看到他人破坏自然遗产地的行为感到愤怒	0.787
亲环境行为	1.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，我会和亲戚朋友谈论自然遗产地的环境问题	0.819	0.903	0.903	0.701
	2.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，我会说服他人在自然遗产地内采取环保行为	0.859
	3.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，当发现环境破坏行为我会向管理方反映	0.850
	4.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，看到垃圾我会捡起来	0.819

类别	测量项	标准负荷	Cronbach’s α	CR	AVE
游憩涉入	1.置身于自然遗产地让我感到愉悦	0.681	0.758	0.761	0.516
	2.我的较多休闲活动都和亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动有关	0.699
	3.亲身体验了一个不合适的自然遗产地真令人气恼	0.771
自我效能感	1.置身于自然遗产地时，我觉得我有能力保护好当地环境	0.841	0.921	0.920	0.700
	2.置身于自然遗产地时，我有信心可以保护好当地环境	0.960
	3.置身于自然遗产地时，我会努力保护当地环境	0.916
	4.置身于自然遗产地时，我能约束自己不破坏当地环境	0.713
	5.置身于自然遗产地时，我会想办法对环境做出改变	0.725
自然亲近感	1.身心沉浸在美丽的自然遗产地中，我感觉无比的幸福	0.873	0.893	0.893	0.736
	2.我对亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动有一种无法割舍的依赖	0.863
	3.我享受亲身体验过程中自然遗产地带给我的美的感受	0.838
生态恐惧感	1.当我置身于自然遗产地看到当地的环境恶化让我感到害怕	0.779	0.853	0.854	0.661
	2.当我置身于自然遗产地看到当地的环境问题让我感到焦虑	0.858
	3.当我置身于自然遗产地细想人类对自然遗产地长年累月的破坏可能带来的后果我感到恐惧	0.799
生态责任感	1.亲身体验过程中因看到自然遗产地没有采取充分的保护措施来阻止环境恶化而感到愤怒	0.865	0.848	0.849	0.653
	2.亲身体验过程中因自己没能保护自然遗产地而感到内疚	0.768
	3.亲身体验过程中看到他人破坏自然遗产地的行为感到愤怒	0.787
亲环境行为	1.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，我会和亲戚朋友谈论自然遗产地的环境问题	0.819	0.903	0.903	0.701
	2.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，我会说服他人在自然遗产地内采取环保行为	0.859
	3.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，当发现环境破坏行为我会向管理方反映	0.850
	4.亲身参与自然遗产地旅游活动过程中，看到垃圾我会捡起来	0.819

评价指标	χ2	χ2/ df	GFI	AGFI	RMSEA	NFI	IFI	CFI
修正前	409.657	2.354	0.884	0.846	0.065	0.905	0.943	0.943
理想标准值	越小越好	＜3.0	＞0.9	＞0.8	＜0.05	＞0.9	＞0.9	＞0.9
修正后	302.099	1.756	0.913	0.883	0.049	0.930	0.969	0.968

评价指标	χ2	χ2/ df	GFI	AGFI	RMSEA	NFI	IFI	CFI
修正前	409.657	2.354	0.884	0.846	0.065	0.905	0.943	0.943
理想标准值	越小越好	＜3.0	＞0.9	＞0.8	＜0.05	＞0.9	＞0.9	＞0.9
修正后	302.099	1.756	0.913	0.883	0.049	0.930	0.969	0.968

类别	游憩涉入	自我效能感	自然亲近感	生态恐惧感	生态责任感	亲环境行为
游憩涉入	0.516
自我效能感	0.206^***	0.700
自然亲近感	0.194^***	0.169^***	0.736
生态恐惧感	0.179^***	0.146^***	0.117^**	0.661
生态责任感	0.131^**	0.071^*	0.130^**	0.174^***	0.653
亲环境行为	0.254^***	0.183^***	0.325^***	0.110^**	0.088^*	0.701
AVE的平方根	0.718	0.837	0.858	0.813	0.808	0.837