Consumer behaviour and lifestyle patterns of Hungarian students with regard to environmental awareness
| Autor: | Zsuzsanna Marjainé Szerényi, Zsóka Ágnes, Széchy Anna |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science business.industry Strategy and Management jel:C83 Norwegian Energy consumption language.human_language Consumer society Environmental education jel:M31 Industrial relations Environmentalism language Sustainable consumption Sociology Product (category theory) jel:Q01 jel:Q56 Business and International Management Marketing business General Economics Econometrics and Finance Consumer behaviour sustainable consumption environmental education consumer behaviour environmental consciousness |
| Zdroj: | Society and Economy. 33:89-109 |
| ISSN: | 1588-970X 1588-9726 |
| DOI: | 10.1556/socec.33.2011.1.8 |
| Popis: | The aim of this paper is to describe the consumer behaviour and everyday lifestyle patterns of Hungarian university and college students. The results are gained from an international survey, carried out by the Department of Environmental Economics and Technology at the Corvinus University of Budapest, supported by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism. As background literature, characteristics of the consumer society and the development of sustainable consumption as a concept are interpreted in the paper. The empirical analysis aims to describe the most important clusters of students, based on the factors of their consumer behaviour, environmental activism and pro-environmental everyday habits. Our results identify two extreme clusters which most significantly differ from each other: the environmental activists and the indifferent group. However, a third cluster has the most modest consumer behaviour, namely the group which considers product features, energy consumption and the behaviour of producers. They spend the least on consumer goods. The three other clusters show quite mixed lifestyle patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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