Despite the global scale of climate change, research comparing people’s behavioural expression of their concern for the problem across societies is lacking. The present investigation adopts a person‐context interaction approach to provide such a comparison and demonstrates the influences of societal‐level factors. We propose that some sociocultural contexts tend to be more agentic, allowing people to express their internal attributes, including climate change concern, whereas some contexts tend to be more restrictive, hindering people from doing so. With two international datasets, we observed that the association between climate change concern and mitigation behaviour was stronger among societies with higher levels of self‐expression affordance (indicated by lower levels of disease threat and higher levels of governance quality, economic development, and individualism). These results indicate the importance of considering not only individual‐level determinants but also societal‐level factors in the study of people’s behavioural response to climate change. They also offer insights into how environmental practitioners and decision makers can promote mitigation behaviour.

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探索气候变化关注与社会之间的缓解行为之间的关联：人际互动方法

尽管气候变化的全球规模很大，但缺乏研究来比较人们对整个社会对问题的关注的行为表现。本研究采用人与环境的互动方式进行比较，并证明了社会层面因素的影响。我们建议，某些社会文化环境趋向于更具吸引力，使人们能够表达其内部属性，包括对气候变化的关注，而某些环境趋于更具限制性，从而阻碍人们这样做。通过两个国际数据集，我们观察到在自我表达能力较高的社会中，气候变化关注与缓解行为之间的关联更强（表明疾病威胁水平较低，治理质量较高，经济发展和个人主义）。这些结果表明，在研究人们对气候变化的行为响应时，不仅要考虑个人决定因素，还要考虑社会因素。他们还提供了有关环境从业者和决策者如何促进缓解行为的见解。