Social connectedness as a pathway towards climate resilience: exploring climate change scepticism with machine learning approaches and mediation regression models
Wei Shi, Qiang Zhou, Yan Song · 2026
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Wei Shi, Qiang Zhou, and Yan Song examine social connectedness and climate doubt in China in a 2026 survey study using national social survey data. Doubt weakens public action on climate change, yet Chinese patterns differ from Western accounts. Learning models ranked correlates of doubt, while mediation models traced middle pathways through worldview, risk awareness, and policy views. Regional differences were also mapped.
Stronger social ties tracked with lower climate doubt overall, though the link varied by tie type. Human-centered beliefs, risk awareness, and policy views each carried part of the association, with pathways differing by doubt type. Regional variation ran large, warning against one-size advice. The authors present connectedness as a subtle lever for resilience that must be tuned to local context.
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| CREATOR | Wei Shi, Qiang Zhou, Yan Song |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 84822 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |