Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China.
Policies to promote the usage of energy-saving vehicles (EVs), such as electric vehicles and hybrids, were introduced and implemented in many countries due to increasing awareness of the potential benefits of such vehicles on environmental and energy conservation. However, despite consumers’ claims...
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| author | Wang, Zi-Xu Amer, Hamzah Jantan Wu, Ruo-xi Gong, Yue Wong, Philip Pong Weng* Wang, Lei |
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| description | Policies to promote the usage of energy-saving vehicles (EVs), such as electric vehicles and hybrids, were introduced and implemented in many countries due to increasing awareness of the potential benefits of such vehicles on environmental and energy conservation. However, despite consumers’ claims of their concerns and positive attitudes toward environmental issues, those claims have not been translated into energy-saving vehicles’ purchasing behavior. Prior studies neglected the interrelationship between consumer ethnocentrism (CE), perceived value (PV), and consumer knowledge (CK) in influencing consumer behavior, including pro-environmental behavior. This study examines the relationship between CE, PV, CK, perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), attitude and intention to purchase domestic energy-saving vehicles. A total of 396 completed questionnaires were collected through convenience sampling in Xuzhou, China. The survey data were subjected to descriptive analysis and analysis of variance using SPSS. In addition, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were utilized for the hypotheses testing. The results revealed that CE positively influenced PV and CK; PV and CK positively influenced PU and PEU. CK positively influenced PV, while PU and PEU positively influenced attitude and intention, and PEU was shown to influence PU. Furthermore, attitude was shown to significantly influence intention to purchase domestic energy-saving vehicles. Lastly, the theoretical and practical implications of the outcomes were discussed, including the limitations of the research. |
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| spelling | my.sunway.eprints.21112022-09-07T06:15:26Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2111/ Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. Wang, Zi-Xu Amer, Hamzah Jantan Wu, Ruo-xi Gong, Yue Wong, Philip Pong Weng* Wang, Lei HF Commerce TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Policies to promote the usage of energy-saving vehicles (EVs), such as electric vehicles and hybrids, were introduced and implemented in many countries due to increasing awareness of the potential benefits of such vehicles on environmental and energy conservation. However, despite consumers’ claims of their concerns and positive attitudes toward environmental issues, those claims have not been translated into energy-saving vehicles’ purchasing behavior. Prior studies neglected the interrelationship between consumer ethnocentrism (CE), perceived value (PV), and consumer knowledge (CK) in influencing consumer behavior, including pro-environmental behavior. This study examines the relationship between CE, PV, CK, perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease of use (PEU), attitude and intention to purchase domestic energy-saving vehicles. A total of 396 completed questionnaires were collected through convenience sampling in Xuzhou, China. The survey data were subjected to descriptive analysis and analysis of variance using SPSS. In addition, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were utilized for the hypotheses testing. The results revealed that CE positively influenced PV and CK; PV and CK positively influenced PU and PEU. CK positively influenced PV, while PU and PEU positively influenced attitude and intention, and PEU was shown to influence PU. Furthermore, attitude was shown to significantly influence intention to purchase domestic energy-saving vehicles. Lastly, the theoretical and practical implications of the outcomes were discussed, including the limitations of the research. Frontiers Media 2022-09-06 Article PeerReviewed Wang, Zi-Xu and Amer, Hamzah Jantan and Wu, Ruo-xi and Gong, Yue and Wong, Philip Pong Weng* and Wang, Lei (2022) Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.927709/full 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.927709 |
| spellingShingle | HF Commerce TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Wang, Zi-Xu Amer, Hamzah Jantan Wu, Ruo-xi Gong, Yue Wong, Philip Pong Weng* Wang, Lei Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title | Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title_full | Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title_fullStr | Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title_short | Exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: Some insights from China. |
| title_sort | exploring consumers’ intention toward domestic energy-saving vehicles: some insights from china. |
| topic | HF Commerce TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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