Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 3338-3356Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su6063338
Keywords
sustainable consumption; model of goal-directed behavior; knowledge; social embeddedness; voluntary carbon offsets; Change for Good
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean Government [2012S1A5A2A01019597]
- KAIST EEWS research
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2012S1A5A2A01019597] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This paper investigates how consumers' level of knowledge and social embeddedness can influence sustainable consumption. An extended model of goal-directed behavior (MGB) is tested by U.S. airline consumers who have participated in UNICEF's Change for Good (CFG) and voluntary carbon offsetting (VCO) programs. Results show that consumers' knowledge positively influenced their subjective norms and attitudes towards participation of VCO and CFG. Increasing consumers' sense of social embeddedness is also found to be crucial in forming their subjective norms for both CFG and VCO. Moreover, positive anticipated emotion is found to influence consumers' desire to participate in VCO, while negative anticipated emotion influences desire towards CFG participation. The findings of this research provide a practical implication on strategies for the airline industry to induce sustainable consumption behavior, as well as demonstrate the need for different emotional elicitation strategies for different sustainability programs.
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