How Environmental Protection Motivation Influences on Residents’ Recycled Water Reuse Behaviors: A Case Study in Xi’an City

Abstract

Pro-environmental behaviors related to reclaimed water reuse are regarded as important motivations for both environmental protection and the use of reclaimed water, and these motivations could affect the citizens’ decision whether they will accept reclaimed water reuse. A hypothesis model was developed as the NAM (Norm Activation Model) has changed, and this hypothesis model was used to explore the factors that affect the citizen’s decision about the reclaimed water reuse, and obtain a better understanding of the mechanism of urban citizens in environmental protection and the related outcomes. First, 584 samples were used to verify the reliability and validity of data, and AMOS21.0 was used to test the goodness-of-fit between the sample data and the hypothesis model. Based on this, the applicability of the improved NAM was verified through the study of recycled water reuse. The hypothesis model was used to analyze its direct influences, showing that environmental motivation has positive influences on the citizens’ acceptance toward recycled water reuse. Besides, Bootstrap method was used to verify the mediation effect, proving that awareness of consequences regarding environmental pollution caused by human activities and ascription of responsibility could strengthen the citizens’ motivation to protect the environment.

A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

“…The term 'reasoned' relates to the assumption that people have reasons for their behaviour. Other scholars recall, in recent times too [147][148][149][150][151], the NAM theory proposed by Schwartz [152]. This model is based on the fact that the activation of personal norms could have a significant impact on individual behaviour.…”

Waste Management Behavior of Households in Klang Valley, Malaysia

“…The PMT describes how individuals are motivated to react in a protective way towards a perceived threat (Rogers, 1975). The PMT has been applied in various studies, such as for predicting the adoption of protective technologies (Chenowich et al, 2009;Woon et al, 2005) and determining pro-environmental behavior such as waste and water management and recycling (Janmaimool, 2017;Liu et al, 2018). In Janmaimool (2017), the PMT model applies the ordinary least squares regression to estimate the behavior.…”

Data-Mining for Processes in Chemistry, Materials, and Engineering

“…In recent years, data-mining has been widely applied for solving problems in chemical, materials, and engineering processes, based on the data collected from either experiments or simulations [14][15][16][17]. In many worldwide pressing issues, such as greenhouse gas capture [18,19], catalytic materials design and optimization [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], and renewable energy studies [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], data-mining has shown predictive power for mining the relationships between the intrinsic and extrinsic properties [40][41][42][43][44][45]. Usually, the mission of a data-mining process is to predict (or output) those variables that are difficult to acquire from experiments/simulations by using the easy variables which can be acquired as the inputs.…”