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
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | consumer ethnocentrism; perceived value; consumer knowledge; technology acceptance model; domestic energy-saving vehicles |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
| Divisions: | Others > Non Sunway Academics Sunway University > School of Hospitality and Service Management [formerly School of Hospitality until 2020] |
| Depositing User: | Ms Yong Yee Chan |
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| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2022 06:15 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2022 06:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/2111 |
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