Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Logistics Management, Delivery Hero Co., LTD, Phnom Penh 12309, Cambodia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 16;18(18):9756. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18189756.
With global aging trends and prosperity in the medicine market, the number of unused or expired household unused or expired medicines is increasing. Medicines which are discarded improperly result in serious pollution. From the perspective of behavioral science, the main contribution of this paper is the construction of a chain mediation model to analyze the influence mechanism between consequences awareness of the public environment and proper return behavior of unused or expired medicines. The model explores the moderating effect of personal health awareness with through observation of to the mediating effect of personal norms and return intention. Using a sample size of 366 residents from China, the proposed hypotheses are empirically tested. The results show: firstly, the direct effect of residents' consequences awareness of public environmental awareness on the proper medicine return behavior is not significant; secondly, return intention plays a mediating role in the positive effect of consequences awareness of the public environment on proper return behavior; thirdly, personal norms and return intention play a chain mediating role in the positive impact of consequences awareness of the public environment on proper return behavior; and lastly, personal health awareness moderates the chain mediation path by strengthening the positive effect of return intention on proper return behavior.
随着全球老龄化趋势和医药市场的繁荣，家庭未使用或过期的药品数量不断增加。不当丢弃药品会造成严重的污染。从行为科学的角度来看，本文的主要贡献是构建了一个链式中介模型，以分析公众环境后果意识与未使用或过期药品妥善归还行为之间的影响机制。该模型通过观察个人健康意识对个人规范和归还意愿的中介作用，探讨了个人健康意识的调节作用。通过对来自中国的 366 名居民的样本进行观察，对提出的假设进行了实证检验。结果表明：第一，居民对公共环境意识后果的直接影响对药品的正确归还行为没有显著影响；其次，归还意图在公众环境后果意识对正确归还行为的积极影响中起中介作用；第三，个人规范和归还意图在公众环境后果意识对正确归还行为的积极影响中起链式中介作用；最后，个人健康意识通过加强归还意愿对正确归还行为的积极影响来调节链式中介路径。
