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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING
Volume 41, Issue 8, Pages 1477-1501Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02650487.2022.2038431
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Green consumer; market segmentation; consumer motivations; skepticism toward pro-environmental advertising
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This study segments US green consumers into six distinct segments based on their personal, social, and environmental motivations for purchasing pro-environmental products. The study finds that green consumers with strong environmental motivations have higher knowledge about pro-environmental products, use a greater variety of such products, and have less skepticism and more positive attitudes towards pro-environmental advertising.
The purpose of this study is to segment US green consumers based on their personal, social, and environmental motivations for purchasing pro-environmental products. By using two-step cluster analysis, this study revealed six green consumer segments, each with a distinct combination of motivations. The different segments display a wide range of demographic characteristics, knowledge of pro-environmental products, pro-environmental product use behavior, skepticism, and attitudes toward pro-environmental advertising. This study found that green consumers, who have strong environmental motivations, have high knowledge about pro-environmental products, use a higher number and more varied selection of such products, tend to have less skepticism toward pro-environmental advertising, and have more positive attitudes toward such advertising. The study expands the motivations used in green consumer segmentation, delivering a more detailed analysis of the drivers of green consumer behavior. It also helps to explain the contradictions in the literature as to whether or not green consumers are open to or skeptical of green advertising.
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