Pollution avoidance and green purchase: The role of moral emotions

Liang, Dapeng; Hou, Chenxuan; Jo, Myung‐Soo; Sarigöllü, Emine

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.103

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“…Most of the papers reviewed in this study regard green purchase behavior as a rational behavior of consumers to protect the environment at the expense of part of their personal interests. As shown in Figure 5 , the research work focuses on the consumer’s psychological factors (e.g., attitude, values, mores, norms), behavior habits and lifestyle (e.g., past purchase behavior, knowledge), as well as socio-demographic influences (e.g., age, gender, education, occupation) on consumers’ green product choices [ 47 , 61 , 119 ]. Of course, consumers cannot buy products just based on their own likes and dislikes.…”

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Why Do Consumers Make Green Purchase Decisions? Insights from a Systematic Review

Zhang

Dong

2020

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In order to achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on green marketing and green purchases. Although great achievements have been made in this field, there still is room for further progress. This study reviews 97 papers providing empirical research on green purchase behavior from 2015 to 2020. First, we review the widely used consumer theory and its extended application in recent years. Second, we divide the influencing factors of green purchase behavior into the following three categories and discuss them in detail: individual factors, product attributes and marketing, and social factors. Finally, we put forward the following possible directions for future research. (1) The authors can consider adjustment to the survey objects to weaken the subjectivity of the data. (2) Longitudinal research can be used to assess the impact of education and policies with a lagging effect on consumers. (3) The authors can broaden the research direction towards a cross-cultural background. (4) The behavior of various green products (such as recyclable tires, recycled glass containers, recycled paper) could be explored to enrich the research content. (5) It will be beneficial to combine a variety of consumer theories to explore the green purchase behavior of consumers and break through the existing linear hypothesis path to explore new research methods.

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Why Do Consumers Make Green Purchase Decisions? Insights from a Systematic Review

Zhang

Dong

2020

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“…However, the research based on the theory of planned behavior has not taken into account the interference of external situational factors, consequently, it is difficult to interpret the complex process of green consumption. Third, the decision-making process of consumers' green consumption behavior is discussed on the basis of decision-making theory to explore the logic of the decision of buying environmentally friendly products [39][40][41][42][43]. Among them, rationalism, behaviorism and empiricism respectively describe an effective way for consumers to make purchasing decisions and explain the decision rule for consumers to buy green products [39,40].…”

Section: Green Consumptionmentioning

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“…However, behaviorism might be lacking in explanatory power in the context of green purchasing with higher involvement of consumers. Empiricism believes that consumers make green purchasing decisions based on their overall emotional preferences for green products or services, focusing on the influence of emotional factors on green purchasing decisions instead of rational factors [43,46]. Taken together with the above three branches, existing research basically only emphasizes that green consumption behavior is a consumption behavior, and rarely recognizes it is an important environmentally responsible behavior.…”

Section: Green Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Consumer Environmental Responsibility on Green Consumption Behavior in China: The Role of Environmental Concern and Price Sensitivity

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Research on influence factors for green consumption has greatly advanced in recent years. However, little research has explored the effect of consumers’ environmental responsibility on green consumption and how this effect was mediated by environmental concern and moderated by price sensitivity, especially when consumers simultaneously pay close attention to environmental and personal interests. This study investigates the impact of environmental responsibility on green consumption via the mediation of environmental concern and the moderation of price sensitivity. The questionnaire survey method was used to collect data from 680 Chinese consumers via an online questionnaire. The empirical results reveal that environmental responsibility can promote environmental concern and enhance green consumption. Specifically, environmental responsibility has a positive impact on environmental concern and also has different positive effects on green consumption intention. Environmental concern positively affects green consumption intention and plays a partial mediation role in the relationship between environmental responsibility and green consumption intention. Price sensitivity plays a negative moderation role in the relationship among environmental responsibility, environmental concern and green consumption intention. The theoretical and managerial implications of the findings were discussed.

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“…Future research should explore, for example, the relevance of gratitude or forgiveness, basic emotions across faiths, on environmental behaviour. There are some insights about gratitude as a positive emotion relate to both pollution avoidance and green purchasing intentions [110].…”

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The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Consumption: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

2020

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Background: Due to the current environmental crisis, sustainable consumption (SC) behaviour and its drivers has gained significant attention among researchers. One of the potential drivers of SC, religion, have been analysed in the last few years. The study of the relationship between religion and adoption of SC at the individual level have reached mixed and inconclusive results. Methods: Following the PRISMA guidelines, a systematic review of articles published between 1998 and 2019 was conducted using the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Search terms included sustainable consumption, green consumption, ethical consumption, responsible consumption, pro-environmental behaviour and religion. Results: This systematic review reveals that contradictory results are due to methodological and theoretical reasons and provides a unifying understanding about the influence of religion on SC practices. Results highlight the role of religion as a distal or background factor of other proximal determinants of environmental behaviour. Conclusions: This paper contributes to the literature concerning SC by synthesising previous scholarship showing that religion shapes SC indirectly by affecting attitudes, values, self-efficacy, social norms and identity. The review concludes with a research agenda to encourage scholars the study of other unexamined mediating constructs, such as beliefs in after life, cleansing rituals and prayer, moral emotions, moral identity, the role of virtues and self-restrain.

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Pollution avoidance and green purchase: The role of moral emotions

Cited by 64 publications

References 62 publications

Why Do Consumers Make Green Purchase Decisions? Insights from a Systematic Review

Why Do Consumers Make Green Purchase Decisions? Insights from a Systematic Review

Impact of Consumer Environmental Responsibility on Green Consumption Behavior in China: The Role of Environmental Concern and Price Sensitivity

The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Consumption: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

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