The role of gender and self-efficacy in domestic energy saving behaviors: A case study in Lombardy, Italy

Rainisio, Nicola; Boffi, Marco; Pola, Linda; Inghilleri, Paolo; Sergi, Ilaria; Liberatori, M.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112696

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“…The results show that Italians most frequently implement sustainable behaviors related to energy saving and recycling while sustainable mobility behaviors are the least implemented. These results are supported by past studies which con rmed that Italians are used to enact behaviors related to energy saving 14 , by limiting the use of air conditioning, turning off lights, using the stairs instead of the elevator, and related to reusing and recycling objects by postponing their end of life 15 . However, sustainable mobility behaviors are much less frequent mainly due to external barriers that prevent their implementation such as limited services offered by the cities 16 .…”

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confidence: 81%

Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Castellini

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Provenzi

et al. 2023

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Individual behavior is one of the most influential factors affecting both environmental change and chronic disease development. To encourage behaviors bringing about environmental and health co-benefits, it is important to understand the underlying factors of behavior change for healthy and sustainable lifestyles. One area of potential overlap concerns people's health consciousness. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between health consciousness and pro-environmental behavior. We investigated whether health consciousness correlates with five clusters of pro-environmental behaviors: sustainable food consumption, recycling, green purchasing, sustainable mobility, and energy saving. Research data were collected via cross-sectional survey involving a representative sample of 1001 Italian citizens. Statistically significant differences emerged in the frequency of the different classes of pro-environmental behaviors: Italians most frequently implement sustainable behaviors related to energy saving and recycling while sustainable mobility behaviors are the least implemented. Moreover, stepwise linear regression model demonstrated the predictive role of citizens’ health consciousness on the adoption of specific classes of pro-environmental behaviors showing how higher involvement in one’s own health determines higher levels of pro-environmental behaviors. This evidence highlights the importance of creating educational interventions and campaigns to increase involvement in health in order to rise pro-environmental behaviors.

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confidence: 81%

Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Castellini

Acampora

Provenzi

et al. 2023

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“…The results showed that people living in Italy most frequently implement sustainable behaviors related to energy saving and recycling whereas sustainable mobility behaviors are the least implemented. These results are supported by past studies which confirmed that people living in Italy are used to enact behaviors related to energy saving 16 , by limiting the use of air conditioning, turning off lights, using the stairs instead of the elevator, and related to reusing and recycling objects by postponing their end of life 17 . However, sustainable mobility behaviors are much less frequent mainly due to external barriers that prevent their implementation such as limited services offered by the cities 18 .…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Castellini

Acampora

Provenzi

et al. 2023

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Individual health-related behavior is among the most influential yet modifiable factors affecting both climate change and chronic disease. To encourage behaviors bringing about environmental and health co-benefits, it is important to understand the underlying factors of behavior change for healthy and sustainable lifestyles. One area of potential overlap concerns people’s health consciousness. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between health consciousness and pro-environmental behavior. We investigated whether health consciousness correlates with five clusters of pro-environmental behaviors: sustainable food consumption, recycling, green purchasing, sustainable mobility, and energy saving. Research data were collected via cross-sectional survey involving a representative sample of n = 1011 Italian citizens. Statistically significant differences emerged in the frequency of the different classes of pro-environmental behaviors: people living in Italy most frequently implement sustainable behaviors related to energy saving and recycling while sustainable mobility behaviors are the least implemented. Moreover, the stepwise linear regression model demonstrated the predictive role of citizens’ health consciousness on the adoption of specific classes of pro-environmental behaviors showing how higher involvement in one’s own health determines higher levels of pro-environmental behaviors. These results highlight the relevance of developing and testing complex programs featuring educational, sensitization, and structural strategies to increase citizens involvement in public health and pro-environmental behaviors.

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“…Meanwhile, others focus on how the perceptions and social factors affect their desire toward certain behavior, such as to adopt technology or their pattern energy consumption. It is resonance with the argument from Rainisio et al [13], which states that sustainability is inseparable part of individual and collective behavior studies which also related to other fields such as gender and cross-cultural differences.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The study used bibliographic data on the total publications and citations each year as an overview of the related topic as shown in figure 1. Generally, sustainability issue has started to gain interest in social science since 1970 [13]. However, the first publication on gendered energy studies in WOS was published in 1995.…”

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Bibliographic analysis: the trends of gendered sustainable energy studies

Ariyani

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Energy studies need to consider a gender perspective to encourage sustainable human development, since it is an inseperable part of human life. The awareness of gender issues within sustainable energy studies increases along with its acknowledgment within the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to identify the research trends of gender issue in sustainable energy studies. This paper utilizes bibliometric techniques on 379 publications related to gender and sustainable energy which are indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database as of October 2021. The result shows the growing number of annual publications. This paper also analyzes the keyword co-occurrence to identify the common concept within the area of study. Furthermore, based on 18 most influential articles, this paper discovers four categories of research trend within the field. Finally, according to term co-occurrence analysis, this paper raises several emerging discourses within the field.

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The role of gender and self-efficacy in domestic energy saving behaviors: A case study in Lombardy, Italy

Cited by 21 publications

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Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Health consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors in an Italian representative sample: A cross-sectional study

Bibliographic analysis: the trends of gendered sustainable energy studies

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