Sociological Explanation of Factors Affecting Households Energy Consumption in Iran

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Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI:10.33140/jeee.02.03.07

Batoul Mahmoud, Molaei Kermani1, Mahdi Kolahi3 Hossein Mirzaei2, Mahdi Kermani4, Ph.D Molaei Kermani

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How energy is consumed as part of a lifestyle has attracted a lot of attention. Energy consumption, like other socio-economic phenomena, is influenced by various factors. The current paper aims at identifying the factors affecting the attitude towards households’ energy consumption in Iran (Mashhad). In recent decades, energy consumption has become one of the major urban issues with the growth of urban population, increasing. Mashhad is also one of the metropolises of Iran that according to statistics has a high consumption. Thus, the current paper was conducted quantitatively through a questionnaire with a sample of 540 households using cluster sampling method. The results showed that independent variables explained the variance of the dependent variable by 21.5%. Other results showed that the variables of religiosity, social inequality, environmental knowledge and social comparison directly affect household energy consumption and the variable of mass media use indirectly affected energy consumption by affecting social inequality.

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伊朗家庭能源消费影响因素的社会学解释

作为生活方式的一部分，能源是如何消耗的吸引了很多关注。能源消费同其他社会经济现象一样，受到各种因素的影响。本文旨在确定影响伊朗(马什哈德)家庭能源消费态度的因素。近几十年来，随着城市人口的增长，能源消耗已成为城市的主要问题之一。据统计，马什哈德也是伊朗的大都市之一，消费量很高。因此，本文采用整群抽样的方法，通过问卷调查540户的样本进行定量研究。结果表明，自变量对因变量方差的解释率为21.5%。其他结果表明，宗教信仰、社会不平等、环境知识和社会比较等变量直接影响家庭能源消费，大众媒体使用等变量通过影响社会不平等间接影响能源消费。

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