Why do people turn down the heat? Applying behavioural theories to assess reductions in space heating and energy consumption in Europe

Applying an Extended Model of Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Intent to Perform an Energy Efficiency Renovation in Flanders

“…heat pump installation, but failed to find an effect for other investigated EERs such as replacing windows, attic insulation or façade insulation. Attitudes towards reducing energy consumption were furthermore associated with knowledge about energy use (Conradie et al, 2023). Expanding on this research, we formulate H5a and H5b: There is a positive association between renovation knowledge and perceived behavioural control to perform an EER (H5a) and renovation knowledge and attitude to perform an EER (H5b).…”

“…: agreeing to fewer parking spaces when not personally owning a car) and is less efficient in explaining behaviour with higher personal cost, as is potentially the case in performing an EER. Another behavioural model of interest is Prototype-Willingness-Model which has seen limited use to explain sustainable behaviour, including energy curtailment (Conradie et al, 2023) and environmentally friendly behaviour (Ratliff et al, 2017). Nonetheless, PWM emphasises socially reactive behaviour through identification with others also engaging in that behaviour (Webb et al, 2010), and is thus less relevant when trying to understand EER intent.…”

“…Their research showed that attitude, subjective norms, PBC and green consumer identity all independently predicted higher sustainable purchase intentions, and that green consumer identity also significantly moderated the effect of subjective norms on intentions. However, as noted by Broers et al (2019), despite the breadth of implementation of the TPB to explain sustainable behaviour, few works focused on renovations in general and EERs in particular, with the largest part of research focusing on curtailment behaviour (Conradie et al, 2023), renovations within a community context (Xiao et al, 2023;Zhang et al, 2021) or purchase intentions for sustainable housing (Judge et al, 2019). As stressed by Kastner & Stern (2015), research on curtailment behaviour cannot be directly applied to the domain of EERs.…”

Exploring the factors influencing the intention to clothing and textiles recycling among Chinese college students’: a study based on TPB and VBN

“…Specifically, items for biospheric values and altruistic values were drawn from research conducted by Sanchez-Garcia et al (2021) , Lee and Jan (2018) , Kim et al (2022) , and Denley et al (2020) . Items for attitude, subjective norms, behavioral intention and perceived behavioral control were drawn from research conducted by Conradie et al (2023) , Khan et al (2020) , Chu and Chen (2016) , and Nie et al (2020) . Items for self-identity were drawn from research conducted by Bai et al (2021) .…”

Energy Conservation at Home: A Critical Review on the Role of End-User Behavior

“…Regarding the social dimension, it can be observed that an increasing number of studies try to apply well-established behavioral theories to the topic to overcome existing research and action gaps. Among these, the theory of planned behavior (TPB) recurs the most, followed by the goal framing theory (GFT) [157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165]. It is frequently observed that intentions are the most direct contributors to actions and behaviors, and that they can be predicted by attitude, social norms, and especially perceived behavioral control (a feeling that one can act successfully).…”