New insights into the link between pro-environmental attitudes and household food waste behaviours in China: Moderating effect of shopping distance.

IF 3.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL
Waste Management & Research Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-30 DOI:10.1177/0734242X231219628
Hong-Xing Wen, Xiao-Qing Wu, Ting Cui, Zhen-Ni Yang, You-Hua Chen
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Abstract

Environmental attitude, value and awareness are widely believed to help reach the goal of cutting global food waste, but these psychological and cognitive factors are not always good predictors of wasteful behaviours. Notably, it is still unclear how the role of pro-environmental attitude (PEA) in reducing household food waste (HFW) changes with grocery shopping distance. To this end, using 7319 households survey data from China, this study investigates the moderating effect of shopping distance on the link between PEA and HFW behaviour. The results of Tobit regressions show that PEA is an important predictor of actual HFW behaviour in the absence of the constraint of shopping distance. However, the expansion of shopping distance will weaken the positive role of PEA in reducing HFW. It indicates that, due to the temporal and financial constraints generated by shopping distance, there is a certain degree of hypothetical deviation between the wasteful behaviours that individuals actually exhibit and their stated PEA. Our findings, from the perspective of the moderating effect of shopping distance, explain why some individuals deviate from their stated PEA in HFW behaviour, which provides a new insight into the generation of 'attitude-behaviour' gap. Therefore, policy interventions that merely enhancing environmental education may have limited effect on reducing food waste; instead, the promotion of citizen environmental ethics should be combined with efforts to improve the accessibility of retail infrastructures.

中国家庭食物浪费行为与环保态度之间关系的新见解:购物距离的调节作用
人们普遍认为,环保态度、价值观和意识有助于实现减少全球食物浪费的目标,但这些心理和认知因素并不总是浪费行为的良好预测因素。值得注意的是,亲环境态度(PEA)在减少家庭食物浪费(HFW)中的作用如何随购物距离的变化而变化,目前仍不清楚。为此,本研究利用中国 7319 个家庭的调查数据,探讨了购物距离对亲环境态度与家庭食物浪费行为之间联系的调节作用。Tobit 回归结果表明,在没有购物距离限制的情况下,PEA 是预测实际高频消费行为的重要因素。然而,购物距离的扩大会削弱 PEA 在减少高频挥霍方面的积极作用。这表明,由于购物距离产生的时间和经济限制,个人实际表现出的浪费行为与他们声明的 PEA 之间存在一定程度的假设偏差。我们的研究结果从购物距离的调节作用角度,解释了为什么有些人的高家庭消费行为会偏离其声明的 PEA,这为 "态度-行为 "差距的产生提供了新的视角。因此,仅仅加强环境教育的政策干预对减少食物浪费的效果可能有限;相反,公民环境道德的宣传应与改善零售基础设施的可及性相结合。
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Waste Management & Research
Waste Management & Research 环境科学-工程:环境
CiteScore
8.50
自引率
7.70%
发文量
232
审稿时长
4.1 months
期刊介绍: Waste Management & Research (WM&R) publishes peer-reviewed articles relating to both the theory and practice of waste management and research. Published on behalf of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) topics include: wastes (focus on solids), processes and technologies, management systems and tools, and policy and regulatory frameworks, sustainable waste management designs, operations, policies or practices.
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