Examining green purchasing. The role of environmental concerns, perceptions on climate change, preferences for EU integration, and media exposure

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1130533" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1130533</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1130533" target="_blank" >10.3389/fenvs.2023.1130533</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Examining green purchasing. The role of environmental concerns, perceptions on climate change, preferences for EU integration, and media exposure

Original language description

Factors impacting green consumption studied in the literature include 1) economic incentives and possibilities, 2) socio-dem1ographic segmentation, 3) values, emotions and personal responsibilities, 4) information including education and mass media, 5) factors related to the locality of the respondents and the lifestyles. While the effects of environmental concerns and perceptions of climate change or green purchasing are well established, the impacts of preferences for EU integration and media exposure are less clear. The article examines the effects of environmental concerns, perceptions of climate change, trust in EU policies, and media exposition on green purchasing employing a representative sample of 904 respondents (aged 15-95 years, M +/- SD: 47.74 +/- 17.66; 51.40% women, 19.40% with higher education) in the Czech Republic. Methodologically we rely on principal component analysis, correlations, and a set of ordinal regression analyses. The results suggest that 1) the public perceives the agendas of environment protection and climate change as two different agendas. 2) environment protection attitudes and climate concerns, the acceptance of EU integration positively predict green consumption. 3) the impact of the media exposition proved controversial: printed media and online discussion forums and blogs positively predicted green purchasing, while exposition to online social networks negatively impacted purchasing of organic food; 4) the frequency of watching TV negatively predicted purchasing of environmentally friendly products. We suggest that the advertisements emphasizing low prices may reduce willingness to pay a price premium for green products. It implies that more efforts need to be made on TV and social networks to increase public awareness of green consumption.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Environmental Sciences

ISSN

2296-665X

e-ISSN

2296-665X

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JUN 6 2023

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001014878100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162244855