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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 233-244.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.0070

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Research on Influencing Factors of ConsumersEnvironmentally Friendly Clothing Purchase BehaviorBased on Theory of Planned Behavior and Norm Activation Model

Wenchao Li, Jing Shao()   

  1. School of Management,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an,Shaanxi 710129,China
  • Received:2022-01-11 Revised:2022-09-08 Online:2025-06-25 Published:2025-07-04
  • Contact: Jing Shao E-mail:shao.jing@nwpu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Under carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals of China, with the increasingly severe environmental and social impact of China’s residents’clothing consumption, changing China’s consumers’clothing consumption mode and promoting consumers to purchase more environmentally friendly clothing are the keys to alleviate clothing pollution and realize sustainable clothing consumption. Based on the integration of the theory of planned behavior and norm activation model, a theoretical model of the influencing factors of consumers’environmentally friendly clothing purchase behavior is constructed. Based on the online survey of 581 clothing consumers, structural equation model in used to test and discuss the impact of the theoretical variables on consumers’purchase intention and purchase behavior of environmentally friendly clothing, and the regulatory impact of perceived risk on the relationship between the consumers’purchase intention and actual purchase behavior. The results show that the theoretical model based on the norm activation model and theory of planned behavior can well explain and predict consumers’environmentally friendly clothing purchase behavior firstly. Secondly, personal norms and awareness of consequences significantly affected consumers’willingness to buy environmentally friendly clothing directly and indirectly; Thirdly, perceived behavioral control directly affected consumers’purchase behavior, but had no significant impact on behavior intention; Finally, perceived aesthetic risk plays a significant negative regulatory role on the relationship between purchase intention and purchase behavior. Those research conclusions provided some useful theoretical references and relevant suggestions for the formulation of relevant clothing green consumption policies and the design of more effective green marketing strategies.

Key words: sustainable consumption, environmentally friendly clothing, theory of planned behavior, norm activation model, perceived risk

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