Personality and older consumers’ green behaviour in the UK

Gordon‐Wilson, Sianne; Modi, Pratik

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.05.002

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“…This has resulted in the trend of environmental sustainability, which in turn has brought changes in consumer demands and behavior (Mendelson and Polonsky, 1995). For environmental protection different types of behaviors can be opted and buying green products is among one of them (Gordon-Wilson and Modi, 2015). By the time consumers have started showing concern for the environment and preferring eco-friendly products and services (Nimse et al, 2007) and such concerns and awareness about environment has created ecofriendly consumption called 'green consumerism' (Moisander, 2007).…”

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Young consumers' intention towards buying green products in a developing nation: Extending the theory of planned behavior

Yadav

Pathak

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Young consumers' intention towards buying green products in a developing nation: Extending the theory of planned behavior

Yadav

Pathak

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Naturally, many researchers turned to traditional trait models like the Big Five 21 , typically assessed using self-reports. But while the relationship between broad personality traits and pro-environmental behaviour has sparked a considerable amount of research, no clear pattern as of which traits are related to pro-environmental behaviour has emerged, and findings are sometimes contradictory 22–24 .…”

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Frequency of everyday pro-environmental behaviour is explained by baseline activation in lateral prefrontal cortex

Baumgärtner

Langenbach

Gianotti

et al. 2019

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Humankind faces a plethora of environmental problems, many of which are directly influenced by individual human behaviour. To better understand pro-environmental behaviour, we here try to identify interindividual markers that explain variance in the frequency of every-day pro-environmental behaviour. So far, research on this topic has mainly relied on subjective self-report measures and has yielded mixed results. In this study, we applied a neural trait approach to assess stable, objective individual differences. Using source-localised electroencephalography, we measured cortical activation at rest and combined our neural task-independent data with an ecologically valid assessment of everyday pro-environmental behaviour. We find whole-brain-corrected evidence that task-independent baseline activation in the right lateral prefrontal cortex, a brain area known to be involved in cognitive control and self-control processes, explains individual differences in pro-environmental behaviour. The higher the cortical baseline activation in this area, the higher the frequency of everyday pro-environmental behaviour. Implications for the promotion of pro-environmental behaviour are discussed.

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“…Personality traits and their impacts on various behavioral patterns have been investigated in previous studies [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Specifically, in transportation studies, there is considerable literature about personality traits and their relationship with driving style and risk-taking behaviors [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21].…”

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“…Based on previous studies that associated personality traits with several aspects of human behavior [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], it would be appealing to examine their efficacy in predicting transport mode use. The lack of studies that comprehensively consider personality traits based on the well-known big five-model of personality is evident.…”

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The Role of Personality Traits through Habit and Intention on Determining Future Preferences of Public Transport Use

Yazdanpanah

Hosseinlou

2017

Behavioral Sciences

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A complex set of factors may affect transportation mode choice. While earlier studies have often considered objective factors in determining preferences of public transport use as a sustainable transportation, subjective factors such as personality traits are underexplored. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the influence of personality traits on the number of future public transport use. Additionally, “car habit” and “intention toward using public modes” were considered to be important. For this purpose, a case study from departure passengers at Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA, Tehran, Iran) was conducted between January and February 2015 at IKIA. Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) shows that only neuroticism and extraversion personality traits were significant in determining future public transportation mode choice. However, the model indicates that these traits indirectly influence intention and car habit. Neuroticism was found to have a total effect of −0.022 on future public transport use, which represents a negative association with public transport use, while extraversion positively influenced future public transport use with a total effect of 0.031. Moreover, the results found interestingly that car access had a better fit to the data than the number of cars in household (NCH); both had significant positive effect on car habit, but only car access had a significant influence on intention. Furthermore, the effect of socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, educational level, income level, and body mass index (BMI) were determined to be significant in identifying choice of future transport mode to airports, which is explained in the discussion section of this paper.

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Personality and older consumers’ green behaviour in the UK

Cited by 51 publications

References 76 publications

Young consumers' intention towards buying green products in a developing nation: Extending the theory of planned behavior

Young consumers' intention towards buying green products in a developing nation: Extending the theory of planned behavior

Frequency of everyday pro-environmental behaviour is explained by baseline activation in lateral prefrontal cortex

The Role of Personality Traits through Habit and Intention on Determining Future Preferences of Public Transport Use

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