Personality Traits and Sustainable Consumption

Ribeiro, Juliane de Almeida; Veiga, Ricardo Teixeira; Higuchi, Agnaldo Keiti

doi:10.5585/remark.v15i3.3218

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“…A previous study has identified that personality characteristics are considered to be external variables and assumed to influence intention toward a given behavior indirectly mediated by the components of TPB (Ajzen and Fishbein, 1980). For example, Ribeiro et al (2016) confirmed the positive influence of personality traits on sustainable consumption. More specifically, the positive relationship between fashion leadership and attitude toward the environments has been confirmed (Cho and Workman, 2014), indicating that consumers with high levels of fashion leadership might be more likely to participate in sustainable behavior.…”

Section: The Influence Of Fashion Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 73%

Fashion leadership and intention toward clothing product-service retail models

Lang

Armstrong

2018

JFMM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify whether fashion leadership is an obstacle or catalyst to consumers’ purchasing intention in sustainable clothing product-service systems (CPSS), which include sale of redesigned clothing, clothing repair/alteration service, clothing renting, clothing swapping and style consultancy service. Design/methodology/approach The present study examined the causal relationship between fashion leadership and intentions to engage in CPSS. By applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study also considered self-interest and social values in consumers’ intention to adopt CPSS. A series of multiple regression analyses and structural equation modeling were conducted on data collected from 431 females in the USA through an online survey. Findings A significantly positive influence of fashion leadership on consumers’ intention to engage in each CPSS retail model was found; and demographics, including age, income and education have moderating influences on these relationships. Furthermore, the results also confirmed positive relationships between fashion leadership with attitude and subjective norms as well as overall intention to adopt CPSS. Several implications related to the present study were discussed. Originality/value This study is the first of its kind in several aspects; first, affirming the argument that fashion need not contradict sustainability; second, extending TPB model by adopting fashion leadership as the external factor; third, providing new CPSS retail models advocating less material consumption by increasing product longevity and utilizing intangible services. Current studies mainly focus on the synthesis of general benefits of product-service systems (PSS) and how PSS are operated. Existing studies on CPSS primarily focus on consumer preferences and motivations in only a few exploratory qualitative studies. This is the first time that a quantitative study has been conducted to determine the interrelationship between the individual personal characteristic, fashion leadership and the intention to adopt PSS in the clothing industry.

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Section: The Influence Of Fashion Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 73%

Fashion leadership and intention toward clothing product-service retail models

Lang

Armstrong

2018

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“…Personality traits refer to factors reflecting individual characteristic patterns of thoughts as well as feelings and further reflecting individual behavioral patterns [13]. Personality traits might influence one's attitude towards PEBs [14][15][16], and then further contribute to sustainable intentions and behaviors directly or indirectly [17,18]. Some studies support that people with some specific personality characteristics (so-called "green personalities") tend to present stronger attitudes towards PEBs and have more environmental protection potential [12].…”

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Exploring the “Energy-Saving Personality Traits” in the Office and Household Situation: An Empirical Study

Wang

Jian

et al. 2020

Energies

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Behavior-driven energy conservation has been a promising strategy for reducing building energy consumption as well as carbon emissions. With the intention of revealing the impacts of an individual’s personality basis on energy conservation behavioral attitudes and intentions in households and offices, the present study proposes and conducts an experiment in Xi’an, China with two groups for the investigation of such attitudes towards household energy-saving behavior (HESB) and office energy-saving behavior (OESB), respectively. The research adopts structural equation modeling for experiment data analysis. The analysis results suggest that the two personality traits, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, are significantly related to both HESB and OESB attitudes. Especially, agreeable people tend to present stronger energy-saving attitudes, while individuals with higher Neuroticism are less likely to do so. The results indicate that the impacts of these two traits on energy-saving attitude are found to be less influenced by different environment settings. Further, the results find that Extraversion positively influences energy-saving attitude in the office environment, while Openness only significantly works in the household environment. It is hoped that the findings of the present study can provide informative references to energy-saving intervention design as well as further studies on the spillover of pro-environmental behaviors.

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“…Dahl (1998) pointed out that sustainable consumption refers to the need to stay within the global sustainability of resources. Ribeiro, Veiga & Higuchi (2016) added the search for ecologically-correct products and services, the preference for corporations and organizations actively engaged in environment conservation, the saving of resources such as water and energy, the using of materials and equipment up to the end of its life service, the reusing, whenever possible, the right destination of residuals to recycling and the propensity to a lifestyle with a smaller negative environmental impact.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Sustainable Consumptionmentioning

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Embedding Sustainable Consumption into Higher Education in Vietnam

Ha¹,

Tran²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2019

EJBM

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Changing in the way that human produces and consumes are indispensable to achieve sustainable consumption. All of the countries in developed economies, economies in transition and developing economies should promote sustainable consumption. This will require larger changes in society. Higher education plays a vital role in promoting understanding, awareness of professors, staff members and students of sustainable consumption. Through higher education, these people would be positively change their mind about this issue. National Economics University (NEU) is one of the leading university in economics in Vietnam as a case study. Students graduated from the university will be future experts, leaders and businessmen. After graduation, as academic citizens with acquainted knowledge and skills, they will influence the economic and social changes though their business and private purchasing habits and decisions. Using data from the University, this paper will reveal the current landscape of sustainable consumption at National Economics University through the years. In order to embed this issues into education, the university should incorporate sustainable consumption into the curriculum, create and implement a sustainability plan and adjust teaching method to encourage students asking questions, analyzing, thinking critically and making decisions toward sustainable consumption.

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Personality Traits and Sustainable Consumption

Cited by 15 publications

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Fashion leadership and intention toward clothing product-service retail models

Fashion leadership and intention toward clothing product-service retail models

Exploring the “Energy-Saving Personality Traits” in the Office and Household Situation: An Empirical Study

Embedding Sustainable Consumption into Higher Education in Vietnam

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