This study has been done with the aim of developing and validating a perceptual scale for small-scale farmers in arid regions and also redirecting interventions towards sustainability; it was conducted in the two qualitative and quantitative phases. In the scale validation process, principal component analysis was employed to identify the latent dimensions of farmers' perceptions of climate change. The results showed that the scale of farmers' perceptions of climate change has five latent dimensions including “awareness and knowledge,” “ascription of responsibility,” “forgetfulness and optimism about the future,” “perceived risk,” and “human agency.” The results of model validation revealed that all fitness indices are at a suitable level, and this scale might be used by climate change social interventions for sustaining agricultural activities, in water-scarce areas. Given that forgetfulness and optimism are due to the weakness of farmers' episodic memory, it was recommended that climate change social interventions be focused on improving episodic memory using episodic future thinking.

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在干旱地区形成小农对气候变化的看法：促进农业可持续性的社会干预

这项研究的目的是为干旱地区的小农制定和验证感知规模，并将干预措施转向可持续性；它分定性和定量两个阶段进行。在规模验证过程中，采用主成分分析来确定农民对气候变化感知的潜在维度。结果表明，农民对气候变化的感知规模有五个潜在维度，包括“意识和知识”、“责任归属”、“健忘和对未来的乐观”、“感知风险”和“人的能动性”。模型验证结果表明，所有适应度指标都处于合适的水平，这个规模可能会被气候变化社会干预用于在缺水地区维持农业活动。鉴于健忘和乐观是由于农民情景记忆的弱点，建议气候变化社会干预措施侧重于利用情景未来思维改善情景记忆。