The Role of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness in Motivating Environmentally Conscious Behaviors

Abstract

While perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE) has consistently been linked to socially conscious attitudes, the concept appears to have been confounded with other related constructs in the empirical studies measuring its effects on behavior. In addition, the few studies which have considered the effects of PCE on reported behavior have done so only in aggregate. This research demonstrates that PCE is distinct from environmental concern and contributes uniquely to the prediction of certain pro-ecological behaviors. In addition, differences in PCE are shown to be associated with differences in demographics and political affiliation. The results suggest that motivating consumers to express their concern through actual behavior is to some extent a function of increasing their perception that individual actions do make a difference.

Technology acceptance as an influencing factor of hospital employees’ compliance with data‐protection standards in Germany

“…The scales exhibit reported internal consistencies of α= 0.72-0.95 (Ellen et al 1991;Anderson 2005;Peace et al 2003;Riemenschneider et al 2003;Karahanna et al 1999;Culnan 2004;Herath and Rao 2009;Chan et al 2005). In the present study, internal consistencies range from 0.71-0.84.…”

“…In addition, subjects were asked for information regarding four control variables (gender, age, employment sector, and seniority) as well as the type of hospital (public, private, non-profit). The items are standardized questionnaires (Schmidt et al 1998;Ellen et al 1991;Anderson 2005;Peace et al 2003;Knapp et al 2005;Taylor and Todd 1995), in which these models were used and their own supplements were modified to fit in the formulation to the data-protection sub-section (see "scales and items" in the Appendix).…”

“…Questions Source Sk WW1 How likely is it that a dataprotection abuse will cause a significant outage that will result in loss of productivity? Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WW How likely is it that a dataprotection abuse will cause a significant outage that will result in financial losses to organizations? Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WW3 How likely is it that organization will lose sensitive data due a data-protection abuse?…”

“…Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WW How likely is it that a dataprotection abuse will cause a significant outage that will result in financial losses to organizations? Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WW3 How likely is it that organization will lose sensitive data due a data-protection abuse? Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R Cronbach's alpha 0.84; R items were recoded Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R DE3 I think data protection is serious and needs attention Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) Cronbach's alpha 0.49; R items were recoded Peace et al (2003), Riemenschneider et al (2003) AT2 Adopting security technologies and regulations for data protection is beneficial Peace et al (2003), Riemenschneider et al (2003) AT3 Adopting security technologies and regulations for data protection is helpful Peace et al (2003), Riemenschneider et al (2003) AT4 I find the internal regulations for data security to be appropriate and sensible…”

“…Source Sk WS1 I believe that information stored on organisation computers is vulnerable to security incidents Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WS2 I believe the productivity of organisation and its employees is threatened by security incidents Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R WS3 I believe the profitability of our hospital is threatened by dataprotection incidents Ellen et al (1991), Anderson (2005) R Cronbach's alpha 0.53; R items were recoded Table 8 Perceived probability of data abuse (WW)…”