Structure of Domestic Energy Saving: How Many Dimensions?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F16%3A10323325" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/16:10323325 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916514547081" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916514547081</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916514547081" target="_blank" >10.1177/0013916514547081</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Structure of Domestic Energy Saving: How Many Dimensions?
Original language description
The purpose of this study is to examine whether we can find, behind the richness of energy-saving behavior, more general behavioral patterns. Specifically, this study compares the one-factor confirmatory model, the two-factor confirmatory model, and the Rasch model, which embody alternative assumptions about the dimensionality of energy-saving behavior. Unlike previous studies, this study uses a confirmatory approach to the testing of alternative models, and covers 10 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (N = 10,251). This makes our tests rigorous and generalizable beyond a country-specific context. Our results indicate that energy saving is a one-dimensional class of behavior that is a function of individual's propensity to engage in energy saving and the difficulty of energy-saving behavior. The Rasch model provides a valid and parsimonious representation of energy-saving behavior that outperforms the one- and two-factor models. We also show that the curtailment-efficiency dichotomy is not empirically valid.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environment and Behavior
ISSN
0013-9165
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
454-481
UT code for WoS article
000371320300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84958721436