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Factors influencing sustainable consumption behaviors: a survey of the rural residents in China

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In this article, a detailed analysis of the current situation, characteristics and, most important of all, the decision-making process of sustainable consumption behaviors (SCB) of the rural residents in China Data were gathered from surveys conducted in 35 different municipalities or counties, with a total of 1403 questionnaires randomly distributed in 50 villages among these 35 selected regions.
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This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2014-01-15. It has received 340 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable consumption.

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Young consumers' intention towards buying green products in a developing nation: Extending the theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as its theoretical framework and further attempted to extend the TPB by incorporating additional constructs (environmental concern and environmental knowledge) in it.
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Factors Affecting Green Purchase Behaviour and Future Research Directions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 53 empirical articles on green purchase behavior from 2000 to 2014 and identified various prevalent motives, facilitators and barriers affecting purchase decision-making towards green products and provided possible explanations for inconsistencies reported in green purchase behaviour.
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Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model to Investigate Purchase Intention of Green Products among Thai Consumers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of environmental concerns on the intention to purchase green products in Thai consumers, and found that environmental concerns had a significant effect on attitude, perceived behavioral control and purchase intention for green products, but subjective norm.
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Theory of planned behavior approach to understand the green purchasing behavior in the EU: A cross-cultural study

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the main determinants of green purchase behavior by applying the Theory of Planned Behavior and found that subjective norms and interaction of knowledge and confidence in green products significantly determined the green purchase behaviour in all countries.
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A fresh look at understanding Green consumer behavior among young urban Indian consumers through the lens of Theory of Planned Behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the antecedents of ecologically conscious consumer behavior (ECCB) among young urban consumers in India, an emerging market experiencing rapid economic growth with increased urbanization and changes in consumption patterns that are contributing to environmental hazard.
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The theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?

TL;DR: A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmental behavior as discussed by the authors, but no definitive explanation has yet been found.
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Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour : An integrative review and research agenda

TL;DR: In this paper, the contribution and potential of environmental psychology for understanding and promoting pro-environmental behaviour is discussed. But, the authors focus on four main factors underlying human behaviour patterns: identification of the behaviour to be changed, examination of the main factors behind this behaviour, design and application of interventions to change behaviour to reduce environmental impact, and evaluation of the effects of interventions.
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Assessing IT usage: the role of prior experience

TL;DR: A variety of models that incorporate attitudinal, social, and control factor have been advanced to explain IT usage, but it is unclear whether models such as TAM are predictive of behavior for inexperienced users and whether the determinants of IT usage are the same for experienced and inexperienced users of a system.
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Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis on psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behavior is presented, which is based on information from a total of 57 samples and finds mean correlations between psychosocial variables and proenvironmental behaviour similar to those reported by Hines et al.
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