Energy-Saving Behavior: the Different Roles of Altruism and of Environmentalism

This experimental study, in which 118 university students participated, addresses how environmental and altruistic cues induce energy-saving behavior and intention, and their interaction with environmental and altruistic values, thus testing the influence of context or situational variables in energy-saving behavior and intention. Additionally, it does an empirical approach to the role that environmental and altruistic values may have as individual predictors of energy-saving. Environmental and altruistic situational cues are operationalized by environment and altruism conceptual priming. The results reveal an interaction between situational variables and personal values: environment priming induced more energy-saving behavior among individuals with lower altruistic values. The same effect is not observed for energy-saving intention. When the environment and altruism priming were present, individuals with lower altruistic values had less energy-saving intentions. These results underline the importance of distinguishing environmental and altruistic frames and motives when explaining energy-saving behavior.

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Proekologiczne i prooszczędnościowe zachowania gospodarstw domowych jako konsumentów energii

Ekonomia ◽

10.19195/2084-4093.24.3.3 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 23-39

Author(s):

Edyta Ropuszyńska-Surma ◽

Magdalena Węglarz

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

University Students ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Saving Energy ◽

Ecological Awareness ◽

Science Centre ◽

National Science ◽

Saving Behavior

The pro-ecological and pro-saving behavior of households as energy consumersThe aim of the article is to indicate the changes related to households’ behavior linked to energy saving and pro-ecological activities. Therefore, the authors conducted acomparison analysis of the results of the nationwide Polish research about Polish ecological awareness and identified — as part of the Polish National Science Centre NCN project called “Modelling prosumers’ behavior on theenergy market” — pro-economical attitudes of households. The first part of this paper presents the opinions of Poles about the possibilities of development of the different kinds of energy sources in Poland, taking into special consideration the development of renewable energy sources. In the second part of this paper the authors describe households’ behavior connected with saving energy. They analyzed pro-economical behavior such as: switching off lights in empty rooms, unplugging phone chargers after use, using economical bulbs and unplugging devices that are not in use. The diversifying variables of behavior are: sex, age, income. The analysis of households’ behavior was supplemented with the analysis of pro-economical attitudes of Wroclaw university students.

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Analysis of Energy-saving Behavior among University Students in Vietnam

Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering B ◽

10.17265/2162-5263/2016.07.006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Naohiro Goto ◽

Shota Tokunaga ◽

Dinh Thi Nga ◽

Van Ho Thi Thanh

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Saving Behavior

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Formation Of Health-Saving Behavior Of Modern University Students

10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.04.154 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Liliya Goryunova

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Saving Behavior

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Nature-like economy as a sphere of energy-saving behavior of households

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/1089/1/012026 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1089 (1) ◽

pp. 012026

Author(s):

R A Burganov ◽

E A Dolonina ◽

L R Urazbakhtina

Keyword(s):

Energy Saving ◽

Saving Behavior

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Physiological and Self-reported Arousal in Virtual Reality Versus Face-to-face Emotional Activation and Cognitive Restructuring in University Students: a Crossover Experimental Study Using Wearable Monitoring

Behaviour Research and Therapy ◽

10.1016/j.brat.2021.103877 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 103877

Author(s):

Felix Bolinski ◽

Anne Etzelmüller ◽

Nele A.J. De Witte ◽

Cecile van Beurden ◽

Glen Debard ◽

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Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Virtual Reality ◽

University Students ◽

Cognitive Restructuring ◽

Face To Face ◽

Emotional Activation

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Renewable Energy Perception by Rural Residents of a Peripheral EU Region

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11072075 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 2075 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ozgur Kaya ◽

Wojciech Florkowski ◽

Anna Us ◽

Anna Klepacka

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Environmental Pollution ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Coal Combustion ◽

Empirical Relationship ◽

Rural Residents ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Graphic Depiction ◽

Saving Behavior ◽

Local Opposition

Renewable energy (RE) sources are often locally available and have the potential to lessen the rural dependence on the national power grid, reducing disruptions in power supplies and the heavy dependence on coal combustion. Poland faces an EU mandate of a 15% share of renewables in energy generation by 2020. However, the installations intended to supply several types of RE encountered local opposition, forcing a cancellation of the planned investments and stressing a need for understanding rural residents’ attitudes towards RE in general. Using survey data, this paper examines the perception of RE importance among rural residents in eastern Poland. The specified empirical relationship includes the sociodemographic and economic characteristics of residents. Perceptions of the links between health and specific sources of environmental pollution and actions demonstrating energy-saving behavior serve as explanatory variables. The performance of the estimated logit equation was rigorously tested. The probability of attaching importance to RE by rural residents increases most if a respondent displayed an energy-saving behavior, has certain demographic characteristics, and links health to environmental pollution caused by coal combustion. The graphic depiction of the effects of selected variables succinctly communicates possible future programs aimed at strengthening the rural population support of RE.

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