Students’ green information technology behavior: Beliefs and personality traits

Dalvi-Esfahani, Mohammad; Alaedini, Zohre; Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh; Samad, Sarminah; Asadi, Shahla; Mohammadi, Majid

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120406

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“…This is especially important for interdisciplinary course evaluation, as participation could affect students differently. Furthermore, recent research into students' attitudes and behaviours showed the importance of personality traits [104] which, in turn, should also be addressed as potential mediators in pre-post-test measurements in educational settings.…”

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Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

Braßler

Sprenger

2021

Sustainability

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Extant research into the efficacy of—especially interdisciplinary—higher education for sustainable development (HESD) is limited. A need exists to investigate students’ development of sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. Furthermore, universities have experienced difficulties implementing interdisciplinary HESD because of organisational barriers due to monodisciplinary structures, as well as educators’ and students’ reservations. This study introduces an interdisciplinary approach to HESD and investigates its efficacy regarding students’ development of sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours at a university in Germany. The approach applies a series of lectures by different sustainability experts accompanied by several tutorials that support students’ interdisciplinary learning and teamwork towards an interdisciplinary sustainability product. Tutors were trained in interdisciplinary teaching methods, as well as interdisciplinary communication and conflict management, beforehand. Before participating in the interdisciplinary course, the students had a moderate level of sustainability knowledge and behaviour, and a high level of sustainability attitudes. The results from the pre–post-test analysis indicate an increase in students’ sustainability knowledge and behaviours, and no change in students’ sustainability attitudes. If typical barriers to interdisciplinarity are mitigated, interdisciplinary HESD can facilitate students’ development.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

Braßler

Sprenger

2021

Sustainability

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“…It is essential to understand the consumption patterns and the greenwashing perceptions, the intentions and the sensitivity of this segment for the purchase and recommendation of recycled products (Kautish and Sharma, 2019a). Another critical matter is comprehending the personality attributes linked to pro-environmental behavior (Dalvi-Esfahani et al, 2020;Brick and Lewis, 2014). In this way, the researchers can understand this age group's reasoned actions by considering their green personalities.…”

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The effect of environmental concern on conscious green consumption of post-millennials: the moderating role of greenwashing perceptions

Bulut

Nazlı

Aydın

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Purpose This study aims to demonstrate how greenwashing perceptions shape the effect of environmental concern on post-millennials purchasing behavior. Design/methodology/approach Based on 174 responses gathered through a street survey method from 5 different universities in Turkey, data are analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences software (SPSS 16.0). Principal component analysis is performed to assess the differentiation in factors. Multiple regression analysis is used to examine the effects of the items on the post-millennials purchasing and recommendation behavior. Findings The main findings revealed that the environmental concern trait of post-millennials triggers their green purchasing behavior. When the concern on green products is high, the awareness of perceiving that “if the product is actually green or pretending to be green” is high. When the post-millennials take the greenwashing perception into account, their environmental concern has lower effects on their green behavior. The moderating role of greenwashing between environmental concern and green purchasing is apparent. Greenwashing perception decreases the effects of environmental concern on green behavior. Originality/value The research raises the concept of greenwashing perception that moderates the relationship between environmental concern and post-millennials purchasing behavior. This study also demonstrates that greenwashing awareness has a critical role in creating a purchasing behavior of post-millennials that have environmental concerns.

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“…Green eating behavior can reduce energy consumption by not buying food in a distance and lessen waste production by eating fresh or organic food instead of processed food. For sustainable development, it is important to implement environmental protection education to the society, so as to understand the factors that influence green eating intention (Muposhi and Dhurup, 2017;Kim and Kim, 2018;Dalvi-Esfahani et al, 2020;Lacroix and Gifford, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Theory of planned behavior is an extensively applied research model in the intention for green eating (e.g., Mundorf et al, 2018;Ahmad et al, 2020;Canova et al, 2020;Carfora et al, 2020;Dalvi-Esfahani et al, 2020;Malan et al, 2020;Ruangkanjanases et al, 2020). However, prior studies have adopted or extended TPB in several aspects for predicting intention toward green eating, and there are still two major limitations that remain to be solved.…”

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Fitnesser’s Intrinsic Motivations of Green Eating: An Integration of Theory of Planned Behavior and Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model

Chen

Lee

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Global climate change arouses people’s attention to environmental protection and, therefore, changes consumption habits. Food overconsumption not only produces extra waste but also pollutes the environment. Therefore, it is important to understand the factors that motivate people to eat green, an eco-friendly way to consume food. To keep the body in good shape, the fitnessers concern more about diet than the general people. This study explored intrinsic motivations, such as social recognition, environmental ethics, curiosity, joy of purchase, perceived usefulness, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control as constructs that affect fitnesser’s green eating intention. All constructs except curiosity have significant impacts on behavior intention. The results demonstrate that social recognition and environmental ethics have significant effects on curiosity, joy of purchase, perceived usefulness, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control. The mediation effects between social recognition and behavior intention are not supported. The mediators between environmental ethics and behavior intention are joy of purchase, perceived usefulness, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control.

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Students’ green information technology behavior: Beliefs and personality traits

Cited by 69 publications

References 90 publications

Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

Fostering Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours through a Tutor-Supported Interdisciplinary Course in Education for Sustainable Development

The effect of environmental concern on conscious green consumption of post-millennials: the moderating role of greenwashing perceptions

Fitnesser’s Intrinsic Motivations of Green Eating: An Integration of Theory of Planned Behavior and Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model

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