Energy and resource-saving behaviours in European Union countries: The Campbell paradigm and goal framing theory approaches

Liobikienė, Genovaitė; Minelgaitė, Audronė

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141745

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“…It follows from this that promoting energy savings at the household level has the potential to significantly reduce GHG emissions and, in turn, help reach the goal of net-zero emissions. Knowledge about individual-level factors that may foster curtailment and/or efficiency behaviors can provide useful insights for targeted communication strategies; and numerous studies have focused on the psychological determinants of such behaviors, both within [e.g., [7][8][9] and outside [e.g., [10][11][12][13] the European context. The investigation reported in this paper is premised on the assumption that people's motivation to protect themselves against perceived threats, and by extension how they will eventually react to the threatening situation, can be derived from an appraisal of the threat itself and an appraisal of their coping capacity [14,15].…”

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Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

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This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use.

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Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

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“…Attitudes 1, 5 The factors used to measure respondents attitudes toward the protection of electrical energy protection are as follows [90][91][92][93][94][95][96]:…”

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Behavioral Economics and Energy Consumption: Behavioral Data Analysis the Role of Attitudes and Beliefs on Household Electricity Consumption in Iran

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The average electricity consumption in Iranian households is higher than the world average. This can be due to price factors (such as cheap electricity in the country) and non-price factors (such as socio-demographic variables and psychological factors). In this study, non-price factors such as socio-demographic variables and psychological factors in the electricity consumption of urban households in Tehran were investigated. In this regard, using the theoretical foundations of behavioral economics and the psychology of planned behavior, this issue was analyzed. This study collected information on household electricity consumption behavior through a questionnaire and fieldwork from 2560 Tehran households. Results Using econometric techniques, linear regression was estimated, the dependent variable of which was electricity consumption (45 days in winter 2019) and its independent variables including socio-demographic variables (age, sex, number of household members, income) and The variables of the theory of planned behavior (attitude, mental norms and perceived behavioral control) showed that income and the number of household members have a significant and positive effect on electricity consumption, but gender has no significant effect. Of the psychological variables, only perceived behavioral control has a significant effect on electricity consumption. These results show that the consumer does not have a positive attitude towards saving, and mental and social norms do not encourage him to reduce electricity consumption, and they are not effective in consumption control. Finally, the study results were analyzed using behavioral biases that may cause attitudes and beliefs not to lead to action.

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“…However, due to the different benefits and costs, the concern and responsibility unequally influence climate change mitigation behaviour (Jakučionytė-Skodienė and Liobikienė 2021). Therefore, analysing the determinants of climate-friendly behaviour, it is very important to consider, particularly, the costs of behaviour (Van Borgstede et al 2013;Moore and Boldero 2017;Jakučionytė-Skodienė and Liobikienė 2021;Liobikienė and Minelgaitė 2021). By encompassing actions with different costs (from purchasing a new home to reducing waste), we analysed whether the changes in climate change concern and responsibility equally determined these separate actions.…”

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The Changes in Climate Change Concern, Responsibility Assumption and Impact on Climate-friendly Behaviour in EU from the Paris Agreement Until 2019

Jakučionytė-Skodienė

Liobikienė

2022

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Climate change is one of the primary environmental problems broadly discussed in the Paris Agreement. In the literature, authors mainly focused on the changes in climate change concern. However, it is more important to answer whether the changes in concerns and responsibilities affect climate-friendly behaviour. Therefore, this study's objective was to analyse the changes in climate change concern, personal responsibility, and climate-friendly behaviour in EU-28 from 2015 (the launch of the Paris Agreement) to 2019 and evaluate how these changes contributed to separate actions. The changes in climate change concern and personal responsibility were statistically significant (F value). During the analysed period, the purchase of energy-efficient appliances increased the most. Meanwhile, the usage of environmentally friendly transport alternatives decreased. The determinants of changes in climate-friendly behaviour were identified using the multiple linear regression model. Results showed that changes in climate change concern significantly and positively affected waste management and choice of energy supplier which offers a greater share of energy from renewable sources and purchased of low-energy homes. Meanwhile, personal responsibility significantly and positively influenced switching energy suppliers but had a negative effect on home insulation. Furthermore, residents who performed high-cost behaviours (purchase of lowenergy homes) also switched energy suppliers and insulated their homes. Therefore, the results indicated that the benefit and cost of behaviour (time, money) are very important aspects to promote climate-friendly behaviour. This study suggested that policymakers should raise public awareness about climate change and take all efforts to reduce the cost of high-cost behaviours and enable the possibilities to perform climate-friendly behaviour.

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Energy and resource-saving behaviours in European Union countries: The Campbell paradigm and goal framing theory approaches

Cited by 31 publications

References 80 publications

Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors

Behavioral Economics and Energy Consumption: Behavioral Data Analysis the Role of Attitudes and Beliefs on Household Electricity Consumption in Iran

The Changes in Climate Change Concern, Responsibility Assumption and Impact on Climate-friendly Behaviour in EU from the Paris Agreement Until 2019

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