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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.08.002
	Developing sustainability-oriented values: Insights from households in a trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
	Axsen J.; Kurani K.S.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:1
英文摘要	This paper explores the possibilities of consumer transitions to sustainability-oriented values. We draw from sociological and psychological literature to develop a conceptual framework that reflexively links an individual's values and self-concept to their behaviors. We inductively explore the consideration, and in some cases development, of sustainability-oriented values in a small number of narrative accounts of peoples' encounter with a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle during a multi-week trial. Because a plug-in hybrid vehicle substitutes electricity for gasoline, it is a technology that potentially symbolizes sustainability-oriented values. We classify participating households according to Schwartz's 10 motivation types, where households associate sustainability with different motivations, namely benevolence, universalism or self-direction. We categorize households into three groups: those that demonstrate no interests in sustainability-oriented values, those that demonstrate interest in developing such values during their plug-in hybrid vehicle demonstration experience, and those that were already committed to sustainability-oriented values and behaviors. We observe that households open to change are more likely to develop sustainability-oriented values if: (i) their self-concept is open to change (liminal), either as a temporary transitional state or sustained as a value, (ii) they associate sustainability with broader motivational values that are already central to their self-concept, in this case benevolence, universalism or self-direction, and (iii) they experience positive social support for new, sustainability-oriented values within their social networks. Our exploratory findings imply that sustainability-oriented values can be developed in households who did not previously express them. Value change opens new possibilities for sustainable consumer behavior, practices, and policy. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Consumer behavior; Narrative; Plug-in hybrid vehicle; Sustainability; Values
学科领域	advanced technology; climate change; conceptual framework; consumption behavior; electric vehicle; environmental economics; household survey; petroleum; social network; sustainability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	advanced technology; climate change; conceptual framework; consumption behavior; electric vehicle; environmental economics; household survey; petroleum; social network; sustainability
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117987
作者单位	School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis, 2028 Academic Surge, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Axsen J.,Kurani K.S.. Developing sustainability-oriented values: Insights from households in a trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles[J],2013,23(1).
APA	Axsen J.,&Kurani K.S..(2013).Developing sustainability-oriented values: Insights from households in a trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.Global Environmental Change,23(1).
MLA	Axsen J.,et al."Developing sustainability-oriented values: Insights from households in a trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles".Global Environmental Change 23.1(2013).