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Social Support Determines Consumer Performance of Environment-friendly Behaviors

  • Journal of Safety and Crisis Management
  • Abbr : JSCM
  • 2020, 10(3), pp.13-21
  • DOI : 10.14251/jscm.2020.3.13
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : May 7, 2020
  • Accepted : June 29, 2020
  • Published : June 30, 2020

Song Eugene 1 Kwon Seol A 1

1충북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Environmental degradation is a global problem. In South Korea, despite an increase in environment-friendly attitudes, such behaviors and actions have been declining. This study examines the impact of social support on environment-friendly behaviors and explores potential measures to improve social support. An online questionnaire was conducted with 1,000 participants. The group with high social support showed a higher level of performance in terms of environment-friendly behaviors compared with the group with low social support. In the group with lower social support, higher emotional support and material support were associated with an increase in environment-friendly behaviors. In the group with high social support, all social support variables were significantly high, especially the effect of material support. Based on these results, we conclude that inducing emotional encouragement and support could enhance environment-friendly behaviors among the group with low social support. The group with high social support must be strengthened by providing material support to enhance environment-friendly behaviors.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.