Attitude towards Green Consumption among College and University Students in Bahawalpur Pakistan

Asma Fazal

Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2019, vol. 1, issue 1, 15-28

Abstract: Green consumption is using goods and services to fulfill needs, adopting a better lifestyle while decreasing the consumption of natural assets, unhealthy material and outflow of waste and impurities in daily lives to save the environment for future generations. The main objective was to identify the impact of Green Attitude on green purchase intention and green purchase behavior along with sub variables. The study was conducted in the area of South Punjab, Pakistan in which the students were taken as consumers to find out if the&consumer attitude has any impact on green purchase intention and green purchase behavior. The population of the study was students enrolled in colleges and universities of South Punjab Pakistan which includes the levels of study intermediate, graduation, masters, MPhil and PhD with the sample of 250. SPSS software was used to interpret the collecting data to draw results. This study has limited data, limited time, limited and limited sources, limited population, due to which results of this study may not be generalizable to other population or place. The conclusion of the study was that there is a positive impact of Attitude on Green Purchase Intention and Green Purchase Intention and there is positive and slightly strong relationship between the independent and dependent variables.

Keywords: Man-Nature Orientation (MNO); Perceived Environmental Concern (PEC); Green Purchase Behavior (GPB); Green Purchase Intention (GPI); Attitude; Sustainability; Green consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26710/sbsee.v1i1.1004

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