Factors influencing the energy consumption behavior pattern among the Indian higher education institution students

Kamal, Anju; Barpanda, Saswat

doi:10.1109/tapenergy.2017.8397250

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“…Previous studies also found that Extraversion is one of the predictors of country-level environmental engagement [30]. Further, Kamal and Barpanda [26] note that Extraversion bridges social aspiration and environmental concern. Compared with the office, the family environment emphasizes privacy.…”

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“…For example, Tang and Lam [25] noted that agreeable people who consider more about others' feelings are more likely to pay for green hotels consuming less energy and resources. However, Kamal and Barpanda [26] found that not agreeable but extroverted students tend to save energy at school. Shen et al [27] found the contribution of both of the above two personality traits to household energy-saving behavior (HESB) insignificant.…”

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

Wang

Jian

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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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Section: The Impacts Of Personality Traitsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Aytekin and Buyukahraz (2014) found a positive correlation between the behaviour of consumers in buying an eco-friendly product and demographic factors (gender, age, education level, marital status and income level). Anju and Saswat (2017) found that personality traits of the students towards building regulation, environmental concern, social aspiration and comfort along with education, activities, social marketing and personality variables of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability were influencing factors affecting electricity consumption pattern of students in the institution. Jeff (2016) attributed the factors to electrical invisibility caused by a lack of awareness and knowledge about electricity issues.…”

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An empirical survey of critical factors influencing students’ electricity use behaviour in halls of residence

Iyiola

Mewomo

2022

JEDT

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Purpose Understanding electricity use behaviour is considered one of the strategies to achieve sustained electricity management in buildings. The lack of understanding of occupants’ electricity use behaviour has been found to cause various environmental and ecological issues. This paper aims to investigate the factors influencing occupants’ inefficient use of electricity in buildings becomes a vital area of study to achieve maximum benefit in the area of electricity management. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a quantitative survey and questionnaire as instruments for gathering relevant information from end-users in the study area, and the data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings The major factors influencing the electricity use behaviour of students in the study area were attributed to their level of awareness, personal beliefs and attitude towards electricity, managerial influences and economic factors. Originality/value The threats to the environment and ecology necessitate immediate attention to the elements that impact students’ electricity use habits. This research explains the key elements that might impact students’ electricity consumption habits in buildings. Understanding these key characteristics will provide policymakers with vital knowledge of its prevalence.

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“…The result revealed that the majority of the students sampled are not very much aware of energy management practices as they don't replace incandescent with CFL lamps, switching off lights when not leaving for a period. [38] revealed that residence students in Indian higher education institutions exhibit behaviour such as leaving their light on when not in use, hibernating the laptops when they are not in use, leaving computers on when not needed. [25] reported that the energy use behaviour of students a King Saud University were due to students not switching off their lighting systems when not in use and also failure to turn off air-conditioning systems when not in use.…”

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Comparative Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge of Impact of Energy Use Behaviour among Nigerian Higher Education Institutions Residence Students

Olanipekun

Iyiola

2020

JENRR

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The aim of this study was to understand and compare residence students’ awareness and knowledge of the impacts of their reported energy use practices, and to explore their attitudes and reported behaviour regarding energy saving using data collected from three different higher institutions in Southwest, Nigeria namely Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo and Adeyemi College of Education, (ACE), Ondo. The findings revealed that there is a significant difference between the three tertiary institutions regarding their level of awareness with RUGIPO having the highest and ACE having the lowest awareness level (F = 3.571, p = 0.002). The research also found that ACE exhibits the highest scores for almost all aspects of energy use behaviour. The correlation analysis shows a significant correlation between level of awareness and energy use behaviour (R =0.897**, p=0.001).The result shows no significant difference between the level of awareness and socio-demographic characteristics of respondents except gender in RUGIPO (F = 7.654, p = 0.007). The result shows no significant difference between the energy use behaviour and socio-demographic characteristics of respondents except age = 23.407, p = 0.000) and academic qualification = 28.232, p = 0.000) for turning off light when not needed.

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Factors influencing the energy consumption behavior pattern among the Indian higher education institution students

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

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

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

An empirical survey of critical factors influencing students’ electricity use behaviour in halls of residence

Comparative Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge of Impact of Energy Use Behaviour among Nigerian Higher Education Institutions Residence Students

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