Cleaning Products, Environmental Awareness and Risk Perception in Mérida, Mexico

Martínez-Peña, Ruth Magnolia; Hoogesteijn, Almira L.; Rothenberg, Stephen J.; Cervera, María Dolores; Pacheco-Ávila, Julia G.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074352

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“…Nineteen percent of the participants reported transferring cleaning or washing products to different containers, which might lead to mix‐ups with drinks or foods. Similar conclusions related to consumers’ behavior were drawn by other authors . Reasons for noncompliance with the safety instructions and hazard notes on cleaning and washing products might be manifold: nonattention to the information, low general risk perception, and intrapersonal factors (e.g., habitual or experiential factors, misconceptions, attitudes, and sociodemographics), as well as the products’ attributes, such as packaging, odor, or look .…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundsupporting

confidence: 77%

Consumers’ Risk Perception of Household Cleaning and Washing Products

Bearth¹,

Miesler²,

Siegrist

2016

Risk Analysis

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A large share of accidental and nonaccidental poisonings are caused by household cleaning and washing products, such as drain cleaner or laundry detergent. The main goal of this article was to investigate consumers' risk perception and misconceptions of a variety of cleaning and washing products in order to inform future risk communication efforts. For this, a sorting task including 33 commonly available household cleaning and washing products was implemented. A total of 60 female consumers were asked to place the cleaning and washing products on a reference line 3 m in length with the poles "dangerous" and "not dangerous." The gathered data were analyzed qualitatively and by means of multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and linear regression. The dimensionality of the sorting data suggests that both analytically (i.e., written and graphical hazard notes and perceived effectiveness) and intuitively driven risk judgments (i.e., eco vs. regular products) were applied by the participants. Furthermore, results suggest the presence of misconceptions, particularly related to consumers' perceptions of eco cleaning products, which were generally regarded as safer than their regular counterparts. Future risk communication should aim at dispelling these misconceptions and promoting accurate risk perceptions of particular household cleaning and washing products.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundsupporting

confidence: 77%

Consumers’ Risk Perception of Household Cleaning and Washing Products

Bearth¹,

Miesler²,

Siegrist

2016

Risk Analysis

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“…Table 1 provides a brief description of the study. Survey participants were randomly chosen by a convenience sampling [40]. Demographic and education characteristics of the survey participants are presented in Table 2.…”

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Explaining Consumer Intentions for Foods with Antioxidant Properties: Predictors of Choice and Purchase Barriers

Fatkullin

Науменко

Попова

et al. 2021

International Journal of Food Science

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Today, food products not only should serve the source of main nourishment but also must minimize the risk of negative impact on the human body. Products enriched with antioxidants can be referred to such category. For food producers, the development of products “for health” is usually connected with significant investment, whereas the final success of innovative products does not always meet the expectations. The greatest part of such products is withdrawn from the market during the first year. It is important for manufacturers to learn consumer behavior in order to ensure sale growth and a stable market position. The purpose of this study was to study consumer reception of products containing antioxidants. (It is important to conduct market research to identify the needs of buyers in order to maintain a stable position in the market. In order to study this issue, we analyzed the consumer perception of foods with antioxidant properties.) We studied the consumer perception of products with antioxidant properties with regard to choice predictors and barriers for purchasing, which finally determine the success of the product on the market. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 721 consumers of the South Urals. The results of the statistical analysis done with the help of SPSS proved that South Ural consumers in general are ready to purchase products containing antioxidants. Besides, producers must bring information concerning the real value of the product and win the consumer trust and confidence as far as these are the main predictors determining the choice for purchasing the products containing antioxidants. Misunderstanding of the role antioxidants play in the human body may lead to perception of risk concerning consumption of such products and rejection of the purchase.

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“…Lima et al [34] empirically showed that consumers' environmental awareness had an effect on product risk perception. Martínez-Peña [35] showed that the higher the environmental awareness measured with the knowledge about water resources and sewage management in a city was, the higher the risk perception for cleaning products was. Tseng et al [36] suggested that the higher the consumers' sensitivity to electromagnetic waves was, the higher the perception of health risks to mobile phones and household appliances became.…”

Section: Individual Propensity and Technology Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

A Study of Factors Influencing on Passive and Active Acceptance of Home Energy Management Services with Internet of Things

Park

Jeong

2021

Energies

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Since awareness of the influence of home energy management services (HEMS) with Internet of things (IoT) has grown, the study on the acceptance of IoT services has been expanded. Previous studies, however, have not paid attention to the acceptance itself, focusing only on factors affecting the acceptance. This study attempts to draw meaningful implications by exploring the relationships between the acceptance and the factors affecting it with distinctions between passive acceptance and active acceptance. This study analyzed the ordinal logistic regression models based on a survey of 909 adults 19 years of age and older in Korea on HEMS with IoT. In addition, we attempt the ordinal forest to increase the reliability of the research results. As a result, this study showed that consumers’ perception of usefulness was noticeably important to enhance active acceptance and that those who had high sensitivity to new technology acceptance showed high active acceptance, and older women had higher active acceptance. This study might contribute to the research on IoT acceptance in the energy management sector by classifying the acceptance into active acceptance and passive acceptance beyond the framework of setting the acceptance as a single variable.

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Cleaning Products, Environmental Awareness and Risk Perception in Mérida, Mexico

Cited by 16 publications

References 60 publications

Consumers’ Risk Perception of Household Cleaning and Washing Products

Consumers’ Risk Perception of Household Cleaning and Washing Products

Explaining Consumer Intentions for Foods with Antioxidant Properties: Predictors of Choice and Purchase Barriers

A Study of Factors Influencing on Passive and Active Acceptance of Home Energy Management Services with Internet of Things

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