An Extended Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict the Usage Intention of the Electric Car: A Multi-Group Comparison

By Ingrid Moons, Patrick De Pelsmacker. 2015

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An Extended Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) is developed that integrates emotions towards car driving and electric cars as well as car driving habits of the DTPB, and is empirically validated in a Belgian sample ( n = 1023). Multi-group comparisons explore how the determinants of usage intention are different between groups of consumers differing in environmentally-friendly behaviour, environmental concern, innovativeness and personal values. Besides attitudes, media, perceived complexity, compatibility and relative advantage, emotions towards the electric car and reflective emotions towards car driving have a strong effect on usage intention. Car driving habits and perceived behavioural control (facilitators and constraints) do not substantially affect usage intention. Only people differing in personal values show a different motivational structure for a number of important drivers of usage intention.

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

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In Applied Psychology

1. Johan Jansson
2. A. Nordlund
3. K. Westin

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Andrea Mannberg
2. Huanbin Song
3. Sizhen Zhang
4. Zezhou Wu
5. Liwen Chen
6. R. Brännlund
7. Lin Zhang
8. Johan Jansson

In Marketing

1. R. Brännlund
2. Johan Jansson
3. A. Nordlund
4. K. Westin

Citations in the corpus

• Adoption of alternative fuel vehicles: Influence from neighbors, family and coworkers (2017, background): “…attributes using conceptualizations such as perceived relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, observability, and risk (Jansson, 2011; Moons and De Pelsmacker, 2015; Peters and Dütschke, 2014; Petschnig et al., 2014) as well as other related aspects such as vehicle use, fuel…”
• Investigating Young Consumers’ Purchasing Intention of Green Housing in China (2018, methodology): “To date, TPB has been applied to predict consumers’ intention and behavior in a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles [28,29], green hotels [30–32], and energy conservation [33,34].”
• Examining drivers of sustainable consumption : the influence of norms and opinion leadership on electric vehicle adoption in Sweden (2017, background): “More specifically, these factors have also been proven important in understanding AFV adoption in different markets (Byrne and Polonsky, 2001; Jansson, 2011; Lane and Potter, 2007; Li et al., 2013; Moons and De Pelsmacker, 2015; Sang and Bekhet, 2015).”