Impact of psychological factors on energy-saving behavior: Moderating role of government subsidy policy

Jiang, Hong; She, Yi; Wang, Shanyong; Dora, Marinova

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.321

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“…Respondents with higher ecological awareness were also found to be more willing to accept smart appliances for DSR (Mert et al 2008). Therefore, consumers' attitudes could also be related to their energy use behaviour (Abrahamse and Steg 2009;Bradley et al 2014;Hong et al 2019;Thøgersen 2018).…”

Section: Attitude Towards Energy-savingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Concern for energy-saving has also been found influential on consumers' stated willingness-to-shift. Since information policies have proved to be effective in influencing consumers' energy-saving attitude and even behaviour (Henryson et al 2000;Hong et al 2019;Lindén et al 2006), the government could thus consider to campaign for energy-saving along with the promotion of DSR programmes. This matches with the suggestion made by Faruqui and Sergici (2010) Fig.…”

Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Investigating UK consumers’ heterogeneous engagement in demand-side response

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Xenitidou

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Energy Efficiency

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Demand-side response (DSR), the incentivised time-shifting of energy use by consumers away from peak times, is regarded as a potentially effective measure to balance electricity supply and demand. This will be even more important in the low-carbon energy system of the future, with a high share of nondispatchable power, such as variable renewable energy and nuclear power. Most DSR programmes require consumers' active engagement in shifting end-use activities. Previous studies have, however, rarely revealed sociodemographic factors influential for consumers' willingness-to-shift specific end-use activities. This study thus aims to fill this research gap and, using a multinomial logistic model to analyse a nationwide survey, identify factors influential for DSR-related decisions. The nationwide survey for 1004 respondents was carried out to collect data about consumers' willingness-to-shift their daily activities. We focused on the activities that constitute the major part of domestic energy consumption, i.e. cooking, dish-washing, entertainment, heating, laundry and showering. According to the results, consumers' original timing of the end-use activities, sociodemographic factors, ownership of specific appliances and level of concern for energy-saving are influential for their willingness-to-shift activities. These findings can not only help policymakers make more targeted DSR promotion plans but also help to improve broader modelling tools to better consider consumers' willingness-to-shift their demand.

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Section: Attitude Towards Energy-savingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating UK consumers’ heterogeneous engagement in demand-side response

Keppo

Xenitidou

et al. 2020

Energy Efficiency

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“…For example, Guagnano et al [43] pointed out in the attitude-situation-behavior theory that environmental behavior is the result of the interaction between environmental attitude variables and situational factors. Hong et al [44] claimed that government incentive measures and psychological factors play an important role in promoting energy-saving behaviors, and have a significant positive regulating effect on attitude and energy-saving behaviors. Zhang et al [45] found that good publicity of environmental policies may further promote the relationship between consumers' psychological needs and environmental awareness.…”

Section: Relationship Between Preference Framework and Waste-sorting mentioning

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Individual Preference Framework or Group Preference Framework? Which Will Regulate the Impact Path of Product Facilities on Residents’ Waste-Sorting Behavior Better

Chen

Wang

Hou

2020

IJERPH

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To effectively deal with the waste management problems faced by cities, it is of great significance to promote the sorting and recycling of municipal solid waste. Given the correlation between individual behavior and psychological preferences and external situations, this study explored the mechanism of individual preference framework and group preference framework in the impact path of product facilities on residents’ waste-sorting behavior. Based on a questionnaire survey (N = 1505), combined with correlation analysis, difference analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, sensitivity analysis, and other methods, the study found that differences in residents’ age, education background, and monthly income lead to differences in residents’ sorting behaviors, and individuals of young age and low monthly income have higher sorting behaviors than others. Interestingly, highly educated individuals did not show high sorting behavior. Both individual preference and group preference frameworks play a regulating role in the influence path of product facilities on waste-sorting behavior, but a group preference framework (including family preference, organizational preference and social preference) plays the more significant regulating role. Additionally, social preference variables are the most prominent regulatory factors and have a greater “amplifier” effect in the impact of product facilities on waste-sorting behavior. Based on these findings, this study identifies the corresponding policy implications.

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“…Most of the earlier studies on energy conservation behavior have been conducted in developed countries. For example, Abrahamse and Steg (2009) investigated the energy conservation in Netherland, Allen and Marquart-Pyatt (2018) in the USA; Mori and Tasaki (2018) conducted their study in Japan; Dumciuviene et al (2019) in Greece; Hong et al (2019) in China, and Liu et al (2020) conducted their study in Northwest China. Further, most of the research work on energy conservation has been conducted in western countries, and their environmental conditions, customs, traditions and inhabitants' psychological attributes are different from the non-western countries.…”

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Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

Ahmad

Rashid

Choudary

2020

GMSR

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The implementation of energy sustainable practices is acknowledged to be a vital step towards resolving the problem of energy shortage. However, the energy conservation behavior of households in developing countries has not gained much attention. Therefore, this research aims to examine the effect of psychological attributes and financial consciousness on the energy conservation behavior of residential individual in the presence of behavioral intentions. For the purpose of this study, we performed a regression analysis on the data set collected through a questionnaire survey of 310 residential individuals in Lahore, Pakistan. Results reveal that the psychological attributes and financial consciousness of the households have a significant effect on their energy conservation behavior. Further, the findings of the study establish a significant mediating role of households' behavioral intentions towards energy conservation. The findings of this study suggest that media campaigns and energy conservation seminars should emphasize the adoption of energy-saving technologies.

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Impact of psychological factors on energy-saving behavior: Moderating role of government subsidy policy

Cited by 76 publications

References 54 publications

Investigating UK consumers’ heterogeneous engagement in demand-side response

Investigating UK consumers’ heterogeneous engagement in demand-side response

Individual Preference Framework or Group Preference Framework? Which Will Regulate the Impact Path of Product Facilities on Residents’ Waste-Sorting Behavior Better

Impact of Demographic, Psychological Attributes and Financial Consciousness of Households on their Energy Conservation Behavior: Testing the Mediating Role of Behavioral Intention

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