Influence of Awe on Green Consumption: The Mediating Effect of Psychological Ownership.

Autor: Wang, Liying, Zhang, Guangling, Shi, Pengfei, Lu, Xingming, Song, Fengsen
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychology; 11/7/2019, p1-11, 11p
Abstrakt: The increasing demand for environmental protection has given rise to burgeoning research on green consumption. The present research adds to this expanding literature by investigating a novel predictor of consumer green consumption: awe. As a self-transcendent emotion, awe arises when people encounter perceptually vast stimuli that overwhelm their existing knowledge and mental structures, and, meanwhile, this also elicits a need for accommodation. This research proposes and demonstrates that, compared with happiness and a neutral affective state, experience of awe promotes green consumption via an enhanced psychological ownership of nature. Moreover, this research identifies a condition by showing that, while awe promotes green consumption when interdependent self-construal is activated, this effect diminishes when independent self-construal is activated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index