Applying a Comprehensive Action Determination Model to Examine the Recycling Behavior of Taipei City Residents
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Article Title | Applying a Comprehensive Action Determination Model to |
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ERA Journal ID | 41498 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Fang, Wei-Ta (Author), Huang, Mei-Hsuan (Author), Cheng, Bai-You (Author), Chiu, Rong-Jeo (Author), Chiang, Yi-Te (Author), Hsu, Chun-Wei (Author) and Ng, Eric (Author) |
Journal Title | Sustainability |
Journal Citation | 13 (2), pp. 1-18 |
Article Number | 490 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISSN | 2071-1050 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020490 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/2/490 |
Abstract | With the occurrence of rapid global economic growth concerns about waste and its related effects on the environment are on the rise. There has been an increasing focus towards sustainable development and waste recycling as part of environmental sustainability strategies, and the encouraging of recycling behavior has received considerable attention from various environmental stakeholders. While numerous studies have used grounded theories such as the theory of planned behaviors and the norm activation model to examine environmental behaviors, a lack of consideration of other important variables in these studies has been revealed. This study aimed to address this gap by adopting the comprehensive action determination model, which comprises a wider group of influencing variables related to norms, intentions, situations, and habits. This model was tested using structural equation modelling with a sample of 386 valid questionnaires collected from Taipei City residents in the domain of recycling behaviors. Results indicated that awareness had a positive influence on personal norms towards recycling behaviors; social norms had a positive influence on personal norms towards recycling behaviors; attitudes had a positive influence on recycling intentions; social norms had a positive influence on recycling intentions; personal norms had a positive influence on recycling intentions; perceived behavior control had a positive influence on recycling intentions; recycling intentions had a positive influence on recycling behavior; and recycling habits had a positive influence on recycling behavior. However, findings did not support the positive impact of perceived behavioral control on recycling behavior. |
Keywords | comprehensive action determination model; recycling behavior; resource recovery; structural equation modeling; Taipei City |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 410499. Environmental management not elsewhere classified |
350699. Marketing not elsewhere classified | |
Byline Affiliations | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan |
TransWorld University, Taiwan | |
National Taiwan University, Taiwan | |
School of Management and Enterprise | |
Open access url | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/2/490 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q60z4/applying-a-comprehensive-action-determination-model-to-examine-the-recycling-behavior-of-taipei-city-residents
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