Chen Xinyu, Gou Zhonghua, Zhang Huihua
School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
School of Entrepreneurship, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 11;14:1196208. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196208. eCollection 2023.
Although governments have launched energy performance certification (EPC) programs to increase residential energy efficiency, residents' perception and acceptance of these programs have been little studied. This study contextualizes residents' intentions to participate in EPC programs in terms of their attributions to and attitudes toward climate change to find mediating factors and effects to help trigger collective action to reduce residential sector energy demand.
This study employed a partial least squares structural equation modeling approach to empirically analyze a survey conducted on 400 residents of Edmonton, Canada, who participated in the Canadian energy efficiency rating and labeling program, EnerGuide.
Using EnerGuide, a Canadian energy efficiency rating and labeling program, as an example, this study establishes a framework to explain that local residents' internal and external attributions to climate change elicit positive attitudes (need to take action), increasing their recognition of energy efficiency program benefits, which further promotes their EnerGuide program acceptance and participation intentions. This study also reveals the mediating effects between variables. Residents' attitudes toward climate change mediate the relationship between internal/external attributions and EnerGuide program acceptance, and they indirectly impact residents' program acceptance and participation intentions, with this effect moderated by energy efficiency program benefits. Residents' program acceptance also mediates the relationship between climate change attitudes/energy efficiency program benefits and the intention outcome.
The study provides an example of the use of climate change discourse to motivate residents' energy efficiency program participation.
尽管政府已推出能源绩效认证（EPC）计划以提高住宅能源效率，但居民对这些计划的认知和接受度却鲜有研究。本研究从居民对气候变化的归因和态度方面，探讨居民参与EPC计划的意图，以找出中介因素和影响，从而推动集体行动，减少住宅部门的能源需求。
本研究采用偏最小二乘结构方程建模方法，对加拿大埃德蒙顿市400名参与加拿大能源效率评级与标签计划“能源指南”的居民进行的一项调查进行实证分析。
本研究以加拿大能源效率评级与标签计划“能源指南”为例，建立了一个框架来解释当地居民对气候变化的内在和外在归因如何引发积极态度（需要采取行动），增强他们对能源效率计划益处的认知，进而促进他们对“能源指南”计划的接受和参与意愿。本研究还揭示了变量之间的中介效应。居民对气候变化的态度在内在/外在归因与“能源指南”计划接受度之间起中介作用，并且它们间接影响居民对计划的接受和参与意愿，这种影响受能源效率计划益处的调节。居民对计划的接受度也在气候变化态度/能源效率计划益处与意愿结果之间起中介作用。
该研究提供了一个利用气候变化话语激励居民参与能源效率计划的范例。
