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Why do consumers buy paper bags? The Impact of Habit, Consumer Awareness and Sustainability as Drivers of Environmentally Responsible Consumer Behavior

Researchers surveyed 252 Indonesian consumers using Structural Equation Modeling to examine how sustainability values, consumer awareness dimensions, and habitual behavior drive environmentally responsible purchasing decisions such as choosing paper bags. Results showed significant positive relationships between all three drivers and responsible consumer behavior, emphasizing personal agency and habitual action as key levers for promoting green choices.

2023 The Es Economics and Entrepreneurship 5 citations
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Determinants of Finnish consumers’ purchase intention for eco-friendly jute bags as an alternative to plastic

Researchers examined the determinants of Finnish consumers' purchase intention for eco-friendly jute bags as an alternative to single-use plastics, applying the Theory of Planned Behavior and finding that environmental concern, perceived consumer effectiveness, and subjective norms significantly influence purchasing decisions.

2025 Theseus (Ammattikorkeakoulujen)
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Effect Of Environmental Concern, Attitude, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavioral Control And Availability On Purchase Of Green Skincare Products With Intention To Purchase As A Mediation Variable

Researchers found that environmental concern, attitude, and perceived behavioral control positively influenced consumers' intention to purchase green skincare products in Jakarta, with purchase intention serving as a significant mediator between these factors and actual buying behavior.

2022 Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen dan Bisnis 20 citations
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Determinants of Green Purchase Intention for Personal Care Products: An Extended TPB Study in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Researchers surveyed 385 urban consumers in Colombo, Sri Lanka to understand what drives green purchasing intentions for personal care products using an extended Theory of Planned Behavior model. Environmental knowledge, health consciousness, and positive attitudes were the strongest predictors of green purchase intent, while price sensitivity was the main barrier.

2025 Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies
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The Influence of Consumption Values on the Consumption Behaviour of Washing Machine among Housewives in Kulim, Kedah

Researchers surveyed 382 housewives in Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia to identify consumption values predicting washing machine purchasing behavior, finding that functional, conditional, social, and epistemic values together explained 30.8% of variance in consumption behaviour. The findings suggest that marketers and policymakers targeting appliance consumption in this demographic should emphasize functional and epistemic value dimensions.

2024 International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
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Predicting green product consumption using theory of planned behavior and reasoned action

Researchers applied the theory of planned behavior to investigate how environmental awareness and social influence predict consumer intentions to use reusable bags, finding that these factors significantly shape green purchasing behavior in a plastic waste reduction context.

2020 Management Science Letters 61 citations
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Perceived Value as a Bridge: How Social Media Marketing Drives Purchase Intention in Indonesia’s Slow Fashion Industry

Researchers found that social media marketing influences purchase intention for slow fashion products in Indonesia through perceived customer value dimensions — quality, price, emotional, and social — based on a survey of 302 respondents in Greater Jakarta who were aware of but had not yet purchased slow fashion.

2025 Return Study of Management Economic and Bussines
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Human Perceptions of Recycled Textiles and Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review

A systematic literature review of 100+ studies on recycled textiles and circular fashion found that consumers generally hold positive attitudes toward sustainability benefits but are deterred by perceived quality risks, with emotional and functional value perceptions varying by product type.

2020 Sustainability 116 citations
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Impact of Green Advertising and Packaging on Purchase Decisions via Green Perceived Value

This paper is not about microplastics; it studies how green advertising and eco-friendly packaging influence consumer purchasing decisions for bubble tea beverages in Indonesia, using marketing theory.

2024 Ilomata International Journal of Social Science 2 citations
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Sustainable Choices: Understanding Gen Z’s Attitude and Intentions towards Green Products

Researchers surveyed consumers including Generation Z and higher-educated adults to examine how environmental concern, green product expectations, awareness of consequences, responsibility attribution, and personal norms jointly shape attitudes and purchase intentions toward eco-friendly products. The structural model reveals that personal norms and attitude are the strongest proximal predictors of sustainable purchasing behavior.

2025 Journal of Informatics Education and Research
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Purchase intention toward sustainable masks after COVID-19: the moderating role of health concern

Researchers surveyed Korean consumers and found that health concerns about mask-related pollution and environmental knowledge both strengthen intentions to purchase sustainable masks, with value-belief-norm theory and planned behavior models successfully predicting pro-environmental purchasing decisions.

2022 Fashion and Textiles 6 citations
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Exploring The Reasons Of Indonesian Young Adult Consumers Toward Sustainably Packaged Food & Beverages Product

This study explored why Indonesian young adult consumers choose sustainably packaged food and beverage products, identifying environmental awareness and product value as key drivers of purchasing decisions.

2024 Journal of Marketing Innovation (JMI) 6 citations
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Consumption Value Dimension of Green Purchase Intention with Green Trust as Mediating Variable

This study examined how sustainability concerns about packaging and microplastic waste influence consumers' intentions to purchase green cosmetics, using Garnier's Green Beauty campaign as a case study. Green trust was found to mediate the relationship between environmental values and purchase intention. Consumer awareness of microplastics in cosmetics is increasingly driving demand for cleaner product formulations.

2022 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 5 citations
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Role of Consumer Attitudes and Policies in Increasing Sustainable Buying Habits in the Fashion Industry

Researchers surveyed consumers across diverse regions and demographics to assess attitudes toward sustainable fashion purchasing, finding that policies, financial barriers, geographic setting, and physical barriers all influence willingness to choose sustainable over fast fashion products.

2025
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Do attitude towards behavior, subjective norms, and perceived control behavior matter on environmentally friendly plastic purchasing intention?

This study investigated whether attitude toward behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control predict consumer intention to purchase environmentally friendly plastic products, using questionnaire data collected via social media platforms. The findings provide empirical support for the Theory of Planned Behavior as a framework for understanding sustainable plastic purchasing decisions.

2024 International Journal of Management and Sustainability 1 citations
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Promoting Sustainable Consumption: The Roles of Consumers’ Domain-Specific Environmental Knowledge and Personality Traits

This study adapted the environmentally responsible behavior model to examine how domain-specific environmental knowledge and personality traits influence sustainable consumption in the textile and apparel sector. Results showed that both subjective and objective environmental knowledge, mediated by personality factors, significantly shaped pro-environmental consumer behaviors.

2024 Sustainability 8 citations
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Why do consumers buy recycled shoes? An amalgamation of the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behaviour

Researchers found that consumers' intentions to buy recycled footwear are shaped by environmental knowledge, sustainable label awareness, and social norms, with actual purchase behavior further driven by sustainable labeling and word-of-mouth, offering guidance for circular economy marketing.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 30 citations
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Drivers of green purchasing behaviour: a systematic review and a research agenda

This systematic review of 41 studies found that environmental concern, health consciousness, social influence, and perceived value are the strongest drivers of green purchasing behavior. While not directly about microplastics, the findings are relevant to understanding what motivates consumers to choose plastic-free or reduced-plastic products.

2023 F1000Research 14 citations
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The influence of attitude on green-cosmetics purchase intention (pi) in central Kerala

Researchers surveyed 387 consumers of green cosmetics across three districts in Kerala, India, using a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to assess how environmental knowledge, environmental concerns, subjective norms, online accessibility, and greenwashing perceptions influence purchase intention for eco-friendly cosmetic products.

2024 THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER
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Green Cosmetics in Indonesia: Unraveling Attitude-behavior Gap and Gender Moderation

Researchers examined the attitude-behavior gap in green cosmetics purchasing among 310 Indonesian consumers using Structural Equation Modeling, analyzing the relationships among attitudes, environmental consciousness, behavioral control, subjective norms, product knowledge, purchase intention, and actual behavior, with gender as a moderating variable. The study found that positive attitudes toward green cosmetics do not consistently translate into purchasing behavior, and identified gender as a significant moderator in this relationship.

2023 Jurnal Aplikasi Manajemen 3 citations
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An Exploratory Study on Consumer Concerns for the Environment and Its Influence on Purchasing Behaviour in South Africa

Researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey of 250 South African consumers in the eThekwini district of KwaZulu-Natal, finding high environmental awareness and a significant preference for environmentally friendly products, suggesting that consumer concern for the environment influences purchasing behaviour.

2025 Journal of Law and Sustainable Development
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Exploring Consumer Engagement in Response to Sustainable Social Media Content and Brand Identity of Fashion Brands

This marketing study examines how sustainable social media content and brand identity affect consumer engagement with fashion brands. While not a science paper, consumer behavior toward sustainable fashion is relevant to demand for lower-microfiber synthetic textiles.

2023 Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness 2 citations
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Intention to use reusable shopping bags in an emerging economy: a Bayesian Mindsponge framework analysis

Researchers applied the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework to survey data from 536 Vietnamese consumers, finding that voluntary personal norms rather than obligation were the primary driver of intention to use reusable shopping bags over single-use plastic bags. The results suggest that pro-environmental behavior in emerging economies is more effectively cultivated through values-based approaches than compliance framing.

2024 Discover Sustainability 1 citations
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Towards sustainable purchase: the effect of social responsibility, innovativeness and knowledge of natural cosmetics purchasing consumers’ intentions

Researchers applied an extended theory of planned behaviour framework to survey data from Ukraine and Poland, using structural equation modelling to examine how social responsibility, consumer innovativeness, and knowledge shape purchasing intentions for natural cosmetics.

2024 Economics and Environment 1 citations