Title: Sustainable consumption: associated factors and scale validation to measure appliance purchase intentions

Authors: Fabian Reyes-Rueda; Sandra Rojas-Berrio

Addresses: Politécnico Grancolombiano, Bogotá, Colombia ' Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Abstract: First, this article is aimed to identify factors that can influence sustainable consumption, specifically in the green purchase of environmentally friendly products. In order to reach that goal, a literature review was carried out through Scopus. As a result, social influence, environmental attitudes, perceived barriers and green purchase intentions were selected as factors. Second, this research validated a scale to measure green purchase intentions, taking as a reference other scales of literature. The methods included strategies such as expert judgment, cognitive methods, pilot test and reliability coefficients for different appliance categories. The results show that the scale is reliable and measures the proposed constructs.

Keywords: sustainable consumption; green consumption; green purchase; pro-environmental behaviour; green products; appliances.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2020.111469

International Journal of Green Economics, 2020 Vol.14 No.3, pp.191 - 206

Received: 23 Jan 2020
Accepted: 17 Aug 2020
Published online: 27 Nov 2020 *

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