PERSONAL AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON HOUSEHOLD ENERGY ADAPTATIONS
PERSONAL AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON HOUSEHOLD ENERGY ADAPTATIONS
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-9010.70.1.3
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发表时间：
1985-01-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
ELWORTH, JT
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作者：
BLACK, JS;STERN, PC;ELWORTH, JT
本文利用对马萨诸塞州478户居民用电消费者的调查数据，考察了经济、人口、结构和心理变量对报告的四种不同类型节能反应的交互影响，这些反应涉及能源效率的提高或能源提供的服务的减少。因果模型假设情境变量(人口、经济和结构)可能通过个人变量(如态度、信念、规范)间接影响行为，在个人变量之间，因果关系从一般到具体再到报告的行为。结合这些假设的路径分析表明，尽管对大多数家庭来说相对不受约束的行为(如温度设置)受到规范的强烈影响，但个人变量对更受约束的行为(如主要绝缘活动)的影响要小得多。高油价和不断上涨的燃料价格在产生经济牺牲方面的影响大于在产生能源节约方面的影响。讨论了泛化的极限。
Survey data on 478 residential electricity consumers in Massachusetts are used to examine the interactive effects of economic, demographic, structural, and psychological variables on four behaviorally distinct types of reported conservation response involving energy efficiency improvements or curtailment of the services energy provides. The causal model assumes that contextual variables (ie, demographic, economic, and structural) may affect behavior indirectly through personal variables (eg, attitudes, beliefs, norms) and that between personal variables, causality moves from the general through the specific to reported behavior. A path analysis incorporating these assumptions suggested that although behaviors that are relatively unconstrained for most households (such as temperature settings) are strongly influenced by norms, personal variables have much less influence on more constrained actions (such as major insulation activity). The effect of high and rising fuel price was stronger in producing economic sacrifice than in producing energy savings. Limits to generalizability are discussed.