Intention to Conserve Water: Environmental Values, Reasoned Action, and Information Effects Across Time

Determinants of Farmers’ Intention to Adopt Water Saving Measures: Evidence from Italy

“…Indeed, the perceived inconvenience and the costs of water saving appliances may weaken people's water saving intentions [21]. On the opposite end, income and education may positively influence people's water saving intentions [22], as well as receptiveness of water saving-related information [23] and concerns over future water shortage [24].…”

The Influence of Religiously and Scientifically Framed Messages on Agreement with Water Use Restrictions

“…The effects may be weak because the information is presented using framing techniques that do not motivate people to action. However, the effects are stronger in people with pro-environmental values and who have a history of pro-environmental behaviors [72], pointing to the possibility that environmental values moderate the relationship between seeking information and behavioral intentions to conserve water. In fact, Trumbo and O'Keefe [72] suggest that pro-environmental messages might be most effective when they align with preexisting values and behaviors.…”

“…However, the effects are stronger in people with pro-environmental values and who have a history of pro-environmental behaviors [72], pointing to the possibility that environmental values moderate the relationship between seeking information and behavioral intentions to conserve water. In fact, Trumbo and O'Keefe [72] suggest that pro-environmental messages might be most effective when they align with preexisting values and behaviors. In addition, people may readily process and act on messages from sources that they already trust, such as religious and scientific leaders (i.e., the elite cues hypothesis).…”

“…Other studies consider the influence of information seeking on water conservation attitudes [71,72]. People who actively seek out information about water conservation, and then pay attention to that information, are more likely to report intention to conserve water, although the effects are weak [71].…”

Sustainable consumption and marketing

“…The aim of this thesis is to show that the various manifestations of the discrepancy between sustainable development goals and actual behaviour in consumer behaviour and marketing can be explained by the overarching difference in construal level of sustainable development as an abstract construct and sustainable behaviour as concrete actions. Over the years this discrepancy between sustainable development goals and actual behaviour has been explained in terms of social dilemmas (Gupta & Ogden, 2009;Shultz & Holbrook, 1999), temporal discounting (Hardisty & Weber, 2009;Shultz & Holbrook, 1999), place attachment and NIMBY-ism (Devine-Wright, 2013;Feitelson, 1991), or information processing (Laureati, Jabes, Russo, & Pagliarini, 2013;Trumbo & O'Keefe, 2005). These different explanations neatly follow the dimensionality of psychological distance, which supports an overarching explanation in terms of construal level theory of psychological distance.…”