The relationship model of consumers environment responsibility and intention to buy green products with the attitude toward the price of green products and attitude toward the convenience to buy green products
Abstract:
Creating the higher level of consumer environmental responsibility is one of
important issues affecting to the higher levels of consumers green products buying,
leading to reduce the environmental problems. Moreover, from the past literature
reviews, there are two main gaps in literatures related to consumer environmental
responsibility. The first gap is that lacking papers studying the simplified model of
consumer environmental responsibility considering the antecedents and consequences
of consumer environmental responsibility. The second gap is that there are little
papers studying the attitude toward the price of green product and the attitude toward
the convenience to buy green products as the moderating variables.
By proposing the model of consumer environmental responsibility and
empirical testing the proposed model of consumer environmental responsibility with
data from survey research technique, the research result found that the simplified
model of consumer environmental responsibility was appropriate fit with the level of
model fit index values are above critical values and found the several relationships
among the variables in this model. That is, χ2/ df fit index was around 2.282 and IFI,
CFI, NFI and TLI fit index values were above 0.88. For testing the relationship
among all variables in the model, the research found the significantly positive effects
of antecedents, which is instrumental motivation, relational motivation and societal
motivation, to the consumer environmental responsibility. Furthermore, the research
found the significantly positive effects of consumer environmental responsibility to the consequences, which were purchase intention for green products and word-of mouth for green products. Moreover, the research found the significantly negative moderating effect of attitude toward the price of green products to the effect of consumer environmental responsibility to its consequences, which were purchase intention for green products and word-of-mouth for green products. However, the research found the insignificantly moderating effect of attitude toward the convenience to buy green products to the effect of consumer environmental
responsibility to its consequences.
Basing on the research findings, the research discussion, the theoretical contribution, managerial implications and future research directions are proposed.