2001 Volume 26 Issue 80 Pages 37-48
The global environmental issues are getting serious requiring general public for their understandings and cooperatives to the issues. We conducted the first social survey for urban inhabitants to these issues at seven areas in the four cities in 1997 and reported the structures of inhabitants' consciousness to the global environmental issues in the former paper (Part. 1). At the second step the authors made two types of questionnaires that were designed to stimulate subjects and accelerate the reform of their mind. The respondents to the first survey were divided into two groups and the second survey was conducted to the one group with the incentive questionnaires and to the other with the normal questionnaires in 1998. In this paper (Part. 2) we explained the outline of the second survey at six areas in three cities and discussed the characteristics of the two incentive questionnaires' effects. The results were summarized as follows. 1. We compared the proportions of the answers between before and after the incentive. In the group motivated by bias information there were no significant changes at all questions. The incentive by Delphi method had effects at some questions asking the anxieties, but no effects at the questions asking the actions. 2. Using the correlation analysis and the cross table analysis, the effects of the incentive questionnaires were analyzed. In the group motivated with Delphi method, some correlation coefficients between the items became lower after the incentive than before. That was between the two questions asking the anxieties and other questions. The incentive by Delphi method influenced independently the two questions. 3. On the other hand, some correlation coefficients got higher in the group motivated by the bias information. That was between the questions asking subject' concerns or anxieties and subject' actions. So the bias information did not have large effects but had the effects to connect subject's concerns or anxieties to subject's actions. 4. The subjects were classified into four groups by their images to "energy conservation and saving materials." The four groups were compared in respect of the effects of the incentive. The incentive by Delphi method had no differences among the four groups. The subjects of the groups with the image of 'saving money' significantly had higher concerns and anxieties to the global environmental issues than the others.
