Sustainable Consumption and Life Satisfaction

By Jing Jian Xiao, Haifeng Li. 2011

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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between sustainable consumption and life satisfaction. One aspect of sustainable consumption focused on in this study is the environment friendly purchase or green purchase. Using data collected from consumers in 14 cities in China, we found that consumers who reported green purchase intention and behavior had higher scores in life satisfaction compared to other consumers after controlling for gender, age, education, and family income. The findings add evidence to the literature that suggests happiness is associated with prosocial spending (Dunn et al., Science 319:1687–1688 in 2008).

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/31c66e664bda054839ead8eeeab423412eb320db

Citations in the corpus

• Explaining the Paradox: How Pro-Environmental Behaviour can both Thwart and Foster Well-Being (2013, unknown): “For example, consuming in a pro-environmental way was found to be related to greater personal well-being [7], higher overall life-satisfaction [14], and more happiness [15].”