2012 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 34-45
The purpose of this paper is to examine prediction of the psychological processes of evaluation for forest environmental tax, focusing on the role of trust in the local government’s forest management, the role of having the evaluation for forest environmental tax conducted by people in close contact, and the role of the system of forest environmental tax. Multiple group analysis is applied to a structural equation model to show the differences of these influences, using data from questionnaires given to 1,500 residents in six prefectures concerning the evaluation of citizens for forest environmental tax. The proposed model demonstrates that the system of forest environmental tax is more influential than trust in local government’s forest management and having the evaluation conducted by people in close contact. Furthermore, the system of forest environmental tax is the most influential factor in the high interest group for local forest problems. In the low interest group, having the evaluation for forest environmental tax conducted by people in close contact is also an important factor.
