Personal norm, economic incentives and household pharmaceutical waste governance behavior: new evidence from extended value-belief-norm model

IF 3.8 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management Pub Date : 2026-05-21 DOI:10.1007/s10163-026-02565-9

Jin Li, Yufei Liu, Xingle Long, Yanan Qi

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Abstract

Household pharmaceutical waste (HPW) might pose growing threats to environmental sustainability and public health. This study examines the interacting effects of personal values and economic incentives on household pharmaceutical waste governance behaviors (HPWGB), drawing on an extended Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) model. We mainly investigate the household pharmaceutical waste governance behaviors from interdisciplinary integration of psychology and behavior sciences. We compare the different effects of egoistic value, altruistic value and biospheric value on awareness of consequences with respect to HPW. We also compare the different roles of personal norm on household pharmaceutical waste governance behaviors across private and public spheres. We explore the different moderating roles of economic incentives on the relationship between personal norm and household pharmaceutical waste governance behaviors. We conducted questionnaires survey among different provinces. After excluding invalid samples, we conduct structural equation modeling to empirically test the proposed hypotheses via 436 valid survey responses. Altruistic and biospheric values enhance awareness of consequences. Ascription of responsibility further reinforces personal norms, promoting both private- and public-sphere HPWGB. Economic incentives positively moderated the relationship between personal norms and public-sphere HPWGB. The study extends VBN with environmental nudge theory in the field of HPWGB. It also provides sustainable policy implications for improving waste household pharmaceutical governance mechanisms.

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个人规范、经济激励与家庭医药废弃物治理行为：来自扩展价值信念规范模型的新证据

家庭医药废弃物可能对环境可持续性和公众健康构成越来越大的威胁。本研究利用扩展的价值信念规范（Value-Belief-Norm， VBN）模型，探讨个人价值观和经济激励对家庭医药废弃物治理行为（HPWGB）的相互作用。本研究主要从心理学和行为科学的跨学科结合的角度来研究家庭医药废弃物的治理行为。我们比较了利己主义价值、利他主义价值和生物圈价值对HPW后果意识的不同影响。我们还比较了个人规范在私人和公共领域对家庭医药废弃物治理行为的不同作用。研究了经济激励对个人规范与家庭医药废弃物治理行为之间关系的不同调节作用。我们对不同省份进行了问卷调查。在排除无效样本后，我们通过436份有效调查问卷进行结构方程建模，对提出的假设进行实证检验。利他主义和生物圈价值观增强了对后果的认识。责任的归属进一步强化了个人规范，促进了私人领域和公共领域的HPWGB。经济激励正向调节个人规范与公共领域HPWGB之间的关系。本研究将环境助推理论扩展到HPWGB领域。它还为改进废物家庭药品治理机制提供了可持续的政策影响。图形抽象

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来源期刊

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

5.30

自引率

16.10%

发文量

205

审稿时长

4.8 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management has a twofold focus: research in technical, political, and environmental problems of material cycles and waste management; and information that contributes to the development of an interdisciplinary science of material cycles and waste management. Its aim is to develop solutions and prescriptions for material cycles. The journal publishes original articles, reviews, and invited papers from a wide range of disciplines related to material cycles and waste management. The journal is published in cooperation with the Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management (JSMCWM) and the Korea Society of Waste Management (KSWM).