The Use of Social Media in Sustainable Green Lifestyle Adoption: Social Media Influencers and Value Co-Creation

Jiaqi Li, Dickson K. W. Chiu (), Kevin K. W. Ho and Stuart So
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Jiaqi Li: Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Dickson K. W. Chiu: Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Kevin K. W. Ho: Institute of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan
Stuart So: University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PU, UK

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: Although prior research has highlighted the importance of social media in promotion and communication, a comprehensive framework to clarify how to use social media as a value co-creation platform to promote a green lifestyle has yet to be developed. This research aims to create and test a conceptual model for using social media as a value co-creation platform to encourage and motivate people to adopt a sustainable green lifestyle, besides mapping the process of green lifestyle adoption from the actual social media user behaviors. Two hundred and eighty-nine (289) subjects participated in an online survey in the first half of 2022, and the data collected have been analyzed using regression. The three key findings: (1) social media contact is positively associated with a sustainable green lifestyle (β = 0.234, p < 0.001); (2) value co-creation partially mediates the relationship between social media contact and a sustainable green lifestyle (indirect effect = 0.113, with Sobel test’s t -value = 5.762); and (3) surprisingly, the moderating role of social media influencers and social norms in the social media contact–sustainable green lifestyle relationship is not supported. In addition, this research supplied some reasonable and practical implementations that can help green agents and policymakers promote green behaviors.

Keywords: social media; value co-creation; green lifestyle; sustainable development goals; social media influencers; social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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