The deviation between the willingness and behavior of farmers to adopt electricity-saving tricycles and its influencing factors in Dazu District of China

Deviation between willingness and actual behavior regarding community participation in protected areas: A case study in Shengjin lake national nature reserve in China

“…In detail, attitude refers to the positive or negative evaluation of participation by community residents (Zhao et al, 2022); subjective norms refer to the external impetus and pressure caused by others when community residents make decisions on whether to participate (Jia et al, 2022); and perceived behavioral control refers to the perceived ease or difficulty based on personal control over resources, opportunities desires, and motives (Sultan et al, 2020) when community residents participate in the management of SJLNNR. In addition, relevant studies have also considered individual and family characteristics as potential influencing factors (Smith, 2012;Huber and Arnberger, 2021;Qiu et al, 2022). Therefore, this study analyzed the factors influencing deviation using four dimensions: attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and individual and family characteristics.…”

“…and list several types of participation behaviors for respondents to choose. Another limitation is that external contextual factors were not fully considered in this study, such as the types of jobs provided by SJLNNR, individual health status (Feng et al, 2022), and distance to Shenjing Lake (Qiu et al, 2022). In addition, future research can be extended to specific types of protected areas, such as wetland protected areas.…”

“…Generally, willingness predicts and leads to the realization of the corresponding actual behavior of an individual; however, many previous studies have confirmed that there is a deviation between willingness and behavior in real life, such as in commodity consumption , services purchases (Qu et al, 2022), e-commerce adoption (Li et al, 2020), and land transfer (Zhang et al, 2020a). This deviation has been further identified in the field of pro-environmental behaviors such as green consumption (Rausch and Kopplin, 2021;Wang et al, 2021;Ma et al, 2022;Qiu et al, 2022), green agriculture (Guo et al, 2021;Li et al, 2021), garbage classification (Kuang and Lin, 2021;Zhang et al, 2022;Zhou et al, 2022), bird conservation donation (Eylering et al, 2022), and renewable energy development support (Fang et al, 2021). All these studies concluded that the willingness of an individual is higher than the actual behavior demonstrates.…”

Eco-Friendly Energy Efficient Classrooms and Sustainable Campus Strategies: A Case Study on Energy Management and Carbon Footprint Reduction

“…Nasriddinovna (2022) examined solar power's role in enhancing industrial energy savings, with implications for university power reliability, despite a need for more detailed research and consideration of implementation challenges. In a study by Qiu et al (2022), the researchers investigated the difference between farmers' intended and actual use of electricity saving tricycles in Dazu District, China. Madlener et al (2022) analyzed energy efficiency program discrepancies in actual versus predicted savings, offering a methodology beneficial for managing energy in educational settings, albeit with some geographic limitations.…”

Gap between Willingness and Behaviors: Understanding the Consistency of Farmers’ Green Production in Hainan, China

“…Theoretically, the contradiction between farmer’s behavior and will is mainly the result of multiple factors, including individual characteristics and family endowment. For example, Li (2021) [ 18 ] analyzed the key factors that influence the willingness–behavior consistency of farmers to adopt photovoltaic agriculture, and Qiu (2022) [ 19 ] explored whether there is a deviation between farmers’ willingness and behavior to adopt electricity-saving tricycles, and they both concluded that gender, age, education, planting scale, and land transfer can significantly affect the deviation between farmers’ production behavior and willingness Guo (2021) [ 9 ] took rice farmers’ willingness and behaviors regarding the application of biopesticides as the research object, and argued that farmers’ green production cognition significantly negatively affects the deviation. Academics also found that the external environment—such as government support, regional differences, and proximity to cities—can affect farmers’ green production behavior–willingness deviation [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ].…”