Factors Related to Household Energy Use and Intention to Reduce It : The Role of Psychological and Socio-Demographic Variables

By W. Abrahamse, L. Steg. 2011

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Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: a review. (2014, background): “behaviors, see Abrahamse and Steg (2011). For a review of the contribution of environmental psychology for promoting pro-environmental behavior,”
The adoption of sustainable innovations: Driven by symbolic and environmental motives (2014, unknown): “…types predicting the behavior, results are more mixed: it seems that environmental attributes are sometimes less predictive of pro-environmental behavior than other attributes (such as instrumental attributes; Abrahamse and Steg, 2009, 2011; Bamberg and Schmidt, 2003; Poortinga et al., 2004).”
On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist (2019, background): “Attitudes towards energy conservation in combination with perceived behavioral control increase people’s intention to reduce household energy use (Abrahamse and Steg, 2011).”
Are you an energy saver at home? The personality insights of household energy conservation behaviors based on theory of planned behavior (2021, background): “Several existing research has confirmed that the core factors in TPB (i.e., attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavior control) can well predict household energy-saving behavior (Abrahamse and Steg, 2011; Ru et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2014).”
The relationship between motivations of architectural designers and environmentally sustainable construction design (2016, unknown): “Nonetheless, evidence in support of VBN theory demonstrates that individual dispositional factors such as values and norms influence environmental behaviours (Steg et al., 2005, Abrahamse and Steg, 2011).”
Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings (2017, unknown): “Higher perceived personal control allows users to solve personal comfort-driven tasks/actions at the zone level (human-centered actual dynamic/transient [41, 131]) and increase IEQ satisfaction without influencing the overall comfort level/perception (centrally designed neutral/static homeostasis) a”
Pro-environmental behavior correlates with present and future subjective well-being (2016, background): “…a Dutch energy consumer survey indicated that income and age were positively related to energy use (Abrahamse and Steg 2009), whereas a different survey of energy consumers in Netherlands has suggested that only income, and not age was positively related to energy use (Abrahamse and Steg 2011).”
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain (2020, background): “Literature also indicates that behavioural factors are positively related to household energy use and conservation [35,70,78], willingness to switch to green (er) provider [79], and other pro-environmental behaviors such as recycling and fuel conservation [80].”
Affective Influences on Energy-Related Decisions and Behaviors (2014, methodology): “Given that numerous studies already tested the degree to which TPB and VBN predict energy-related decisions and behaviors (see, e.g., Poortinga et al., 2003, 2004; Abrahamse and Steg, 2009, 2011), we adapted our measures from these publications.”
Environmental considerations in the organizational context: A pathway to pro-environmental behaviour at work (2016, methodology): “More specifically, o assess energy use and environmental impact, we employed a ethodology developed by environmental scientists [29], which as successfully been used in earlier studies [1,2,24,33].”
An Integrated Framework for Encouraging Pro-environmental Behaviour: The role of values, situational factors and goals (2014, background): “…biospheric values and normative considerations are less predictive of behaviours when these behaviours are too effortful, costly, or uncomfortable (Abrahamse & Steg, 2009, 2011; Bamberg & Schmidt, 2003; Diekmann & Preissendörfer, 2003; Harland, Staats, & Wilke, 1999; Lindenberg & Steg, 2007; Steg…”
Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour (2015, background): “One domain of consumer behaviour where this disjuncture is evident is residential energy use [6,7,10,11].”