Background
With increasing investments were put into the risk governance in China and huge amount was naturally aimed at education and training. In a certain degree, it seems that the public are seriously lack of the knowledge and capabilities in preparing and preventing themselves from the risks. As a result, the questions are raised as follows: Are the officials and experts, who are making policies and playing the most important roles in risk governance, have the same perception and take the same action to the risks as laypeople? Are they more professional compared to laypeople?
Method
A hybrid research method has been taken to investigate the risk prevention behavior of laypeople and experts in Beijing. In the qualitative research stage, 30 citizens and 23 experts were semi-structured interviewed; In the quantitative stage, the questionnaire, including contents of Risk perception, Values Orientation, Risk prevention behavior, Demographic situation, had been conducted to 689 valid samples, including 500 citizens and 189 experts.
Conclusion
In the qualitative research stage, Knowledge and experience, risk assessment and risk prevention behavior do not have a direct correlation; Results reveal that: The experts group has a higher score of prevention behaviors in the "Specific risk events" (fire and sudden illness), and the public group shows higher score in the "Daily-life risk events" (food, haze, home and traffic). Negative emotions have a positive effect on risk prevention behavior.
By carrying out the questionnaires revised from Florence Kluckhohn’s model of Values Orientations Method, taking the sample of laypeople and experts as a whole, it has been found out that The "Becoming"(Motive for behaving) and "Past "(Time sense) values orientation have a positive effect on the level of risk prevention, while the "Hierarchical"(Social relations) has a negative effect.
By comparing the Value Orientations between laypeople and experts of the high-score prevention behavior samples, It shows a gap in-between according to the percentage variation analysis: In experts’ group, people are more “Present”(Time sense) and “Doing”(External motivation for achievement), while laypeople’s group is more "Past "(Time sense), ““Collateral”(Social relations) and “Being”(Internal motivation valued by oneself).