School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 15;16(6):939. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16060939.
With the improvement of living quality and the increase of energy consumption of residents, their energy conservation behavior (ECB) plays an increasingly important role in energy conservation and emission reduction. As a kind of environmental behavior, ECB of residents is a complicated process. In this paper, ECB is divided into four types, considering habit adjustment, quality threshold, efficiency investment, and interpersonal facilitation. A comprehensive conceptual framework is built, adding perception about energy conservation results (PER) and contextual factors from a new perspective. Based on a survey in Jiangsu province of China, this paper examines the impact of intention on behavior under the moderation of contextual factors, as well as the effect of perception of energy-conservation results on intention and ECB by means of multivariate statistical analysis. The results show that the intention of energy conservation is the determinant of behavior, but it does not well transform into behavior, especially into quality threshold and interpersonal facilitation behavior. Different contextual factors have positive effects on the relationship of intention and different behavior. However, modulating effects of contextual factors as amplifiers do not function effectively due to their low rating scores. PER has a positive impact on intention but not on all types of ECB. Finally, this paper presents important implications for policy makers to optimize energy conservation policy.
随着居民生活质量的提高和能源消耗的增加，他们的节能行为（ECB）在节能减排方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。作为一种环境行为，居民的 ECB 是一个复杂的过程。本文考虑习惯调整、质量门槛、效率投资和人际促进，将 ECB 分为四种类型，并从新的视角增加了对节能效果感知（PER）和情境因素的综合概念框架。基于中国江苏省的一项调查，本文通过多元统计分析，考察了情境因素对意图与行为之间的调节作用，以及节能效果感知对意图和 ECB 的影响。结果表明，节能意图是行为的决定因素，但它并没有很好地转化为行为，特别是质量门槛和人际促进行为。不同的情境因素对意图和不同行为之间的关系有积极的影响。然而，由于评分较低，情境因素的调节效应作为放大器并没有有效地发挥作用。PER 对意图有正向影响，但对所有类型的 ECB 没有影响。最后，本文为政策制定者优化节能政策提供了重要启示。
