Moving into energy-efficient homes: A dynamic approach to understanding residents' decision-making

Towards sustainable consumption: Predicting the impact of social‐psychological factors on energy conservation intentions in Northern Cyprus

“…Emphasizing the preceding proposition, Bamberg () and Schaffner et al . () argued that individuals’ may feel guilty and could be motivated to display appropriate energy‐conservation intentions when they realize that their activities are a threat to the environment. Again, it had been established that negative emotion is the strongest predictor and is found to have a positive influence on intentions to conserve energy/electricity (Brosch et al ., ; Chen et al ., ).…”

“…The TPB espouses that actual behaviour is determined by behavioural intention and behavioural intention is influenced by attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control (Ajzen, 1991). The TPB has played an immeasurable role in the effort to identify and understand sustainable consumption behaviours in particular contexts, including energy/electricity conservation (Carrico and Reimer, 2011;Schaffner et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018). The TPB is an appropriate scheme for analyzing domestic electricity consumption behaviour.…”

“…Emotion refers to mental and physiological feeling states (positive or negative) that are short-lived, but are usually intense. Emotion is also specific situation in which an individual demonstrates the flexibility and capability to respond to adverse or favourable conditions (Jhangiani et al, 2015;Schaffner et al, 2017). In this paper, positive or negative emotion refers to the positive or negative mental states when household electricity conservation behaviours are being performed (Wang et al, 2018).…”

“…In this paper, positive or negative emotion refers to the positive or negative mental states when household electricity conservation behaviours are being performed (Wang et al, 2018). Studies have shown that both positive and negative emotional factors such as: pride, excitement, happiness, satisfaction, guilt, anger, contempt, shame and sadness can determine pro-environmental and conservation behaviours (Jhangiani et al, 2015;Schaffner et al, 2015Schaffner et al, , 2017Han and Hyun, 2018). Relating to current studies on proenvironmental behaviours, Schaffner et al (2015) have found that attention is on negative emotions of the individual, yet both positive and negative emotions influence individuals' intention to act pro-environmentally.…”

“…Relating to current studies on proenvironmental behaviours, Schaffner et al (2015) have found that attention is on negative emotions of the individual, yet both positive and negative emotions influence individuals' intention to act pro-environmentally. Emphasizing the preceding proposition, Bamberg (2013) and Schaffner et al (2017) argued that individuals' may feel guilty and could be motivated to display appropriate energy-conservation intentions when they realize that their activities are a threat to the environment. Again, it had been established that negative emotion is the strongest predictor and is found to have a positive influence on intentions to conserve energy/electricity (Brosch et al, 2014;Chen et al, 2017).…”