Attitude as a Mediator between Sustainable Behaviour and Sustainable Knowledge: An Approximation through a Case Study in the Dominican Republic

Valerio, Cándida María Domínguez; Cuadra, Salvador Moral; Viruel, Miguel Jesús Medina; Agüera, Francisco Orgaz

doi:10.3390/socsci8100288

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“…It is therefore essential for the local authorities to focus on mechanisms to turn their willingness into actual recycling behaviour. Previous studies have produced similar results [22,36,37,54,55]. Therefore, the findings suggest that the more fashion design students' environmental knowledge is known, the more positive their attitudes towards sustainable fashion practices and thus the higher the likelihood that they will pay for behaviours towards sustainable fashion practices.…”

Section: Results Of Testing Research Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 71%

“…Domínguez-Valerio et al [36] found that sustainability attitudes are a mediating variable between sustainability knowledge and sustainability behaviours, generating a full mediating effect. Casaló et al [37] argued that environmental knowledge fosters attitudes, and attitudes promote prosustainable behaviours.…”

Section: Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions For Sustainable Design ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Behavioural Intentions for Sustainable Fashion Practices： Fashion Design Student Perspectives

Ou,

MOHD. TAJUDDIN,

Shariff

2023

Preprint

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With global climate change and resource constraints looming large, sustainable design has become a focus of attention for all industries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and behavioural intentions of undergraduate fashion design students towards sustainable fashion practices. Undergraduate fashion design students (n = 441) from three universities in Guangdong Province, China, participated in this survey. By constructing different scales of environmental knowledge, attitude towards sustainable fashion practice and behavioural intention towards sustainable fashion practice, and by using structural equation modelling to analyse the relationship between environmental knowledge and sustainable fashion practice, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) environmental knowledge has a positive effect on attitude towards sustainable fashion practice (p＜0.05); (2) environmental knowledge has a positive effect on behavioural intention towards sustainable fashion practice (p＜0.05); (3) Subjective norms has a positive effect on behavioural intention towards sustainable fashion practice (p＜0.05). (4) Attitudes towards sustainable fashion practice play a mediating role in the relationship between environmental knowledge and intentions towards sustainable fashion practice behaviour (p＜0.05). The findings of this study have implications for environmental education for undergraduate fashion design students and for sustainable production in companies.

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Section: Results Of Testing Research Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 71%

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Behavioural Intentions for Sustainable Fashion Practices： Fashion Design Student Perspectives

Ou,

MOHD. TAJUDDIN,

Shariff

2023

Preprint

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“…Data supported the mediating effect of EA between EQA, GSE and GPB but not between GT and GPB. Past studies also found support for the mediating effect of attitude in the link between subjective norm and intention to adopt Islamic banking (Bananuka et al , 2019) and between ethical aspect and counterfeit product purchase intention (Quoquab et al , 2017) and between sustainable knowledge and sustainable behaviour (Domínguez-Valerio et al , 2019).…”

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confidence: 88%

Environmental quality awareness, green trust, green self-efficacy and environmental attitude in influencing green purchase behaviour

Ahmad

Rosli

Quoquab

2021

IJOES

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of green trust (GT), environmental quality awareness (EQA), green self-efficacy (GSE) and environmental attitude (EA) towards green purchase behaviour (GPB). The mediating effect of EA is also investigated. Design/methodology/approach Attribution theory and the attitude-behaviour gap model were used to develop the research model. Data were collected through an online survey, which yielded 321 complete and usable responses. The partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM; SmartPLS, Version 3) technique was used to test the study hypotheses. Findings The analysis revealed that GT, GSE and EA affect GPB positively. It was also found that EA mediates the relationship between “environmental quality awareness and green purchase behaviour” and “green self-efficacy and green purchase behaviour”. However, EA did not mediate the link between “green trust and green purchase behaviour”. Practical implications The findings of this study provide insightful implications for social and green marketers, including an understanding of the complex customer behaviour in purchasing green products, which will eventually enable them to formulate better green marketing strategies. Originality/value This study is amongst the pioneers in investigating the effect of EQA in relation to GPB. Furthermore, the mediating effect of EA in the link between “environmental quality awareness and green purchase behaviour”, “green trust and green purchase behaviour” and “green self-efficacy and green purchase behaviour” is also a new contribution to the literature. Finally, this study explains the drivers of consumers’ GPB, thereby providing a novel understanding of the field.

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“…Al-Naqbi and Alshannag [54] investigated 823 university students in the United Arab Emirates and found high levels of understanding, very strong positive attitudes, and moderate behaviour towards ESD and the environment. Dominguez-Valerio, Moral-Cuadra, Medina-Viruel, and Orgaz-Agüera [55] investigated the three interaction of these three variables with students in the Dominican Republic and found no influence of knowledge towards SD on behaviours towards SD, while attitudes functioned as a mediator between knowledge and behaviour. Withley, Takahashi, Zwickle, Besley, and Lertpratchya [56] found students with biospheric and altruistic values more likely to engage in environmental behaviours than students with egocentric values.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

Braßler

Sprenger

2021

Sustainability

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Extant research into the efficacy of—especially interdisciplinary—higher education for sustainable development (HESD) is limited. A need exists to investigate students’ development of sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. Furthermore, universities have experienced difficulties implementing interdisciplinary HESD because of organisational barriers due to monodisciplinary structures, as well as educators’ and students’ reservations. This study introduces an interdisciplinary approach to HESD and investigates its efficacy regarding students’ development of sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours at a university in Germany. The approach applies a series of lectures by different sustainability experts accompanied by several tutorials that support students’ interdisciplinary learning and teamwork towards an interdisciplinary sustainability product. Tutors were trained in interdisciplinary teaching methods, as well as interdisciplinary communication and conflict management, beforehand. Before participating in the interdisciplinary course, the students had a moderate level of sustainability knowledge and behaviour, and a high level of sustainability attitudes. The results from the pre–post-test analysis indicate an increase in students’ sustainability knowledge and behaviours, and no change in students’ sustainability attitudes. If typical barriers to interdisciplinarity are mitigated, interdisciplinary HESD can facilitate students’ development.

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Attitude as a Mediator between Sustainable Behaviour and Sustainable Knowledge: An Approximation through a Case Study in the Dominican Republic

Cited by 7 publications

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Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Behavioural Intentions for Sustainable Fashion Practices： Fashion Design Student Perspectives

Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Behavioural Intentions for Sustainable Fashion Practices： Fashion Design Student Perspectives

Environmental quality awareness, green trust, green self-efficacy and environmental attitude in influencing green purchase behaviour

Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

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