Affective-Symbolic and Instrumental-Independence Psychological Motives Mediating Effects of Socio-Demographic Variables on Daily Car Use

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Still Feeling the Car – The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use (2015, background): “Email: jennifer.kent@mq.edu.au © 2014 Taylor & Francis towards the role of the psychological appeal of the automobile, with an emphasis on the way the car fulfils various symbolic and emotional needs (e.g. Steg 2005; de Groot and Steg 2007; Bergstad et al. 2011).”
What Moves Us? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reasons for Traveling (2015, background): “…by the purely time- and cost-minimization approach to modeling travel, even though such a motivation is considered utterly unremarkable in other contexts, including in other approaches to understanding travel behavior, notably psychological ones (Bergstad et al., 2011; Steg, 2005).6 3.1.2.”
Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019, background): “mastery, joy and prestige play a role in the relatively high satisfaction with car use (Bergstad et al., 2011).”
The role of instrumental, hedonic and symbolic attributes in the intention to adopt electric vehicles (2013, background): “In general, car use and car ownership are typically associated with instrumental, hedonic, and symbolic attributes (e.g., Anable and Gatersleben, 2005; Bergstad et al., 2011; Steg, Vlek, and Slotegraaf, 2001; Steg, 2005; Turrentine and Kurani, 2007).”