Boosting water conservation by improving campaign: Evidence from a field study in China

Sun, Yan; Li, Pengna; She, Shengxiang; Eimontaite, Iveta; Yang, Bo

doi:10.1080/1573062x.2019.1581233

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“… Li et al, 2019 ), age ( Hughes et al, 2019 ),and educational attainment ( Meyer, 2015 ) were paid attention to. In the external environment of individuals, scholars pay attention to reference group ( Mi et al, 2019b ), social norm ( Young et al, 2017 ; Sun et al, 2018 ), leadership style ( Mi et al, 2019a ), and pro-environment climates ( Zientara and Zamojska, 2018 ). However, the important events in the external context have not been paid enough attention to in promoting individual PEBI.…”

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How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

Zhao

et al. 2021

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Social impacts and serious damages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in public introspection on the issue of ecological environmental protection. However, whether the public cognition of COVID-19 can promote pro-environmental behavioral intentions (PEBI) has not yet been determined; this is crucial for studying the ecological significance of the pandemic. Based on the affective events theory (AET), this study investigated the mechanism by which COVID-19 emergency cognition influences public PEBI. Following an analysis of 873 public questionnaires, the results reveal that public cognition of COVID-19 emergency can significantly promote PEBI. Among them, the effect of emergency coping is stronger than that of emergency relevance. Besides, the positive and negative environmental affective reactions aroused by COVID-19 pandemic play a mediating role between the emergency cognition and PEBI. Moreover, the positive environmental affective reactions show a stronger positive effect on household-sphere PEBI. However, the negative environmental affective reactions are more prominent in promoting public-sphere PEBI. This research aims to bridge a research gap by establishing a link between COVID-19 pandemic and PEBI. The findings can provide useful recommendations for policymakers to find the opportunity behind the COVID-19 emergency to promote public PEBI.

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How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

Zhao

et al. 2021

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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“…Increasing research has been devoted to exploring the influential factors of PEB (Cleveland, Robertson, & Volk, 2020; Pícha & Navrátil, 2019; Sun, Li, She, Eimontaite, & Yang, 2018). The review of Li, Zhao, Ma, Shao, and Zhang (2019) reported that individual psychological factors play a more important role in predicting PEB, compared with external factors (such as economic costs and convenience) and demographic factors.…”

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Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Qiao

et al. 2020

Sustainable Development

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Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) of residents can greatly alleviate the threat of environmental pollution to human living environment and promote sustainable development of the society. Cross-cultural studies show that there are significant differences in PEB among countries with different cultural backgrounds. Even within the same country or region, individual cultural values are not identical. So, can various individual cultural values impact PEB differently? To answer this question, this paper investigates the mechanism on how cultural value differences affect residents' PEB, based on Hofstede's cultural model. Following an analysis of 475 questionnaires from residents, the results show that Hofstede's five dimensions of cultural value can significantly impact public-and/or private-sphere PEB. Among them, collectivism and long-term orientation of residents have positive effects on both public-and privatesphere PEB and uncertainty avoidance has a negative impact. Besides, masculinity only affects the public-sphere PEB, and power distance affects neither private-nor public-sphere PEB. In addition, three social-demographic characteristics including gender, age, and educational level have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between cultural values and PEB. These findings can provide useful recommendations for policy makers to draft PEB guidelines and incentive policies based on the differences in cultural values of their residents.

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“…Other studies, however, have argued that positive frames give a higher perceived value and thus have better results in environmental protection behavior ( Liu and Gu, 2020 ). Although it is true that alertness has an impact on people’s environmental behavior ( Sun et al, 2018 ; She et al, 2019 ), and some studies have attempted to explain the role of the framing effect in terms of level of explanation (which affects alertness and perceptions of severity) ( White et al, 2011 ), research has shown that the framing effect only works when activated in the right half of the human brain (which primarily controls emotions and abstract perceptions) ( McElroy and Seta, 2004 ). That is, the effects of the framing effect are not achieved through detailed processing of information (e.g., judging the severity of an event), but rather are realized through abstract perceptions such as emotions.…”

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Good News or Bad News? How Message Framing Influences Consumers’ Willingness to Buy Green Products

Tong

Liu

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Despite the growing social interest in green products, companies often find it difficult to find effective strategies to induce consumers to purchase green products or engage in other environmentally friendly behaviors. To address this situation, we examined the favorable or unfavorable effects of positive and negative message frames on consumers’ willingness to consume green products in different psychological distance contexts. Through two Studies, we found that the positive information framework played a more pronounced role in context when consumers were in closer spatial distances. More importantly, we found that the emotional factors of fear and hope were intrinsic causes of this phenomenon. Correspondingly, the negative information framework played a better facilitating role in context with farther spatial distance, while shame and pride were the emotions responsible for this effect. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of our work, as well as its limitations and future research directions.

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Boosting water conservation by improving campaign: Evidence from a field study in China

Cited by 21 publications

References 52 publications

How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Good News or Bad News? How Message Framing Influences Consumers’ Willingness to Buy Green Products

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