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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,176 Views
26 Pages

We examine how institutional saving mechanisms influence retirement saving decisions under bounded rationality and income risk. Using a life-cycle experiment with habit formation and loss aversion, we test mandatory and voluntary binding savings unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pensions and Retirement Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,684 Views
15 Pages

Revisiting the Energy-Saving Behavior of Hotel Guests: An Integrated Model of TPB and NAM in Vietnam

  • Van Hao Hoang,
  • Phuong Mai Nguyen,
  • Huong-Linh Le,
  • Thi-Hoang-Yen Tran and
  • Lan Huong Vu

This paper explores the energy-saving behavior of hotel guests in the Vietnamese context. We adapted the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the norm activation model (NAM) to develop a research model with six determinants of energy-saving intention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,004 Views
22 Pages

Impact of Attributional Style of Behavior Outcome on the Sustainable Development of Residents’ Energy-Saving Behavior: Differences in Policy Responses of Residents

  • Ting Yue,
  • Jing Zhou,
  • Yingkai Zhang,
  • Mengting Li and ,
  • Qianru Wang,
  • Ruyin Long and
  • Junli Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 March 2023

In the context of promoting the construction of an energy-saving and environment-friendly society, it is crucial to promote the sustainable development of residents’ energy-saving behaviors, determine how attributional styles of behavior outcom...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,135 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2021

This paper investigates the possible benefits and effects of energy-saving attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and the behavioral intention of employees on habits in the workplace. The total sample size was 322 respondents. Confi...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,499 Views
17 Pages

The Influence of Information Intervention Cognition on College Students’ Energy-Saving Behavior Intentions

  • Ranran Yang,
  • Chunxiao Yue,
  • Jingjing Li,
  • Junhong Zhu and ,
  • Hongshu Chen and
  • Jia Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Based on the theory of planned behavior, this research examines the influence of different types of information on the behavioral intentions of college students in the context of perceived behavioral control (perceived self-efficacy and perceptual co...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remediation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,084 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2024

The implementation of water-saving methods has become imperative in college water management to facilitate the promotion of the sustainable growth of water resources within educational institutions. This research aimed to identify differences in wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,483 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2025

With the continuous increase in the number of university students and the improvement of living standards, energy waste in universities has become a significant challenge, hindering progress toward Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality (CPCN) goals. A...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,866 Views
16 Pages

11 September 2019

Water-saving irrigation behavior (WSIB) is important for sustainable economic and social development in river basins and is promoted by improving water-saving awareness. Understanding the factors of WSIB could facilitate water demand management and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,595 Views
13 Pages

An Energy-Saving Evaluation Method for Driving Behavior Based on the SHAP Scorecard Model

  • Guowen Zheng,
  • Deyang Kong,
  • Chenyang Ding,
  • Jiaming Hu and
  • Zhanping Liu

In order to fully examine how driving behavior affects vehicle energy consumption and further cut down on excessive energy use while driving, an energy-saving evaluation method for driving behavior based on the SHAP (Shapley Additive exPlanations) sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Energy Vehicle Thermal and Energy Management Systems Design and Collaborative Control)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
13,990 Views
43 Pages

This paper reviews the current research landscape on Personal Saving Behavior, focusing on its antecedents and outcomes. Using bibliographic analysis of publication trends—highlighting productive authors, journals, countries, and keywords&mdash...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Finance and Financial Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
10,556 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2018

The aim of this study was to investigate guest profiles at a hotel that has created a best-practices water management model to determine how different types of guests contribute to saving water during their stay. To do this, we analyzed levels of env...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Tourism in Sensitive Environments: Mountains, Islands, Coastal and Polar Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,469 Views
16 Pages

18 January 2022

Although the significance of destination image is acknowledged, its effect on tourist reactions, especially energy-saving behavior, remains unknown. This research aimed to explore tourist energy-saving behavior (TESB) and loyalty (TL) in a rural land...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Issues and Their Impact on Tourism Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,969 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2025

Considering the challenges of increasing global energy scarcity and intensifying environmental problems, energy conservation in end-use energy-consuming products has become critical. In this study, we focused on household refrigerators and analyzed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
841 Views
31 Pages

26 February 2026

Promoting sustainability in the building sector requires greater attention to household energy-saving behavior alongside technical efficiency measures. This exploratory longitudinal study investigates how an educational intervention influences reside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
29,827 Views
22 Pages

This research examined the gist of financial literacy on the medium entrepreneurs in Indonesia, impacting the retirement planning through some mediator and moderating variables. Implementing the prospect theory and theory of planned behavior to explo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asset Pricing, Investments and Portfolio Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,556 Views
23 Pages

How to save resources and protect the environment at destinations is one of the hot issues in tourism. One effective solution is to cultivate tourist resource-saving behavioral intentions (TRSBI). Prior studies mainly use Structural equation modeling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Consumer Behavior and Environmental Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,993 Views
25 Pages

16 April 2025

This study extends the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to examine the factors influencing the employees’ intentions to save energy in the workplace (INSER), incorporating organizational culture (ORGCULT) and environmental knowledge (ENVKNOW) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,124 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Water Resources Tax Policy on Water Saving Behavior

  • Lei Wang,
  • Muniba,
  • Zoltán Lakner and
  • József Popp

28 February 2023

The Chinese water administration department has continuously explored and formulated regulatory and market-oriented water control policies to alleviate the contradiction between water shortage and economic and social development and promote the new i...

(This article belongs to the Topic Enabling Strategies and Policies toward a Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,858 Views
11 Pages

12 November 2019

Currently, energy and its usage are the primary environmental issues in all countries and regions. As a special social group, university students not only have extremely high energy consumption needs, but they have more advanced consumption concepts....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,149 Views
26 Pages

4 January 2025

With the increasing awareness of sustainable development and the construction of a water-saving society, many Chinese enterprises, especially those with high water-consuming corporations, have begun to pay attention to water-saving management. This s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,497 Views
24 Pages

9 June 2021

The purpose of the article is to determine how personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience) affect organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment (OCBE), especially in the conte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Consumption Patterns in Sustainable Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,746 Views
11 Pages

There is an urgent need to promote the technical means of energy conservation in rural buildings. However, it is difficult to inspire enthusiasm among rural residents to implement the mandatory building energy conservation policy, resulting in invisi...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,092 Views
15 Pages

Excessive energy consumption and carbon emission damages the ecological environment and socially sustainable development in China. Organizations are major energy consumers, and should be principally responsible for energy saving. Despite that many or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,396 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2023

With environmental concerns gaining prominence, the study of energy-saving behavior (ESB) has captured global expert attention. This research applied the SCT model and utilized survey data collected in Jiangsu Province to explore the factors influenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,776 Views
25 Pages

11 November 2019

The aim of this paper is to investigate households’ willingness to adopt technological and behavioral energy savings measures, in their dwellings and for daily mobility. Based on the evidence that occupants’ behavior has a major impact on...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,734 Views
15 Pages

14 March 2022

While environmental education in early childhood can raise children’s environmental awareness and shape environmental attitudes, little is known about the effects of environmental education programs on pro-environmental behaviors in children. T...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,004 Views
6 Pages

Potential on Comfort Enhancement and Energy Saving through Behavioral Change of Energy Users in Real European Buildings

  • Gloria Calleja-Rodríguez,
  • Juan Jacobo Peralta-Escalante,
  • Noemi Jiménez-Redondo,
  • Francisco Javier Márquez-Pocostales and
  • Paula Anghelita

The study monitored 10 real European buildings to identify comfort enhancement potential and energy saving potential based on changing the behavior of building users. The results show that the office building could have saved up to EUR 2500 in energy...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th Annual International Sustainable Places Conference (SP2020) Proceedings)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,223 Views
9 Pages

8 June 2023

The construction industry is recognized as a heavily polluting industry, so it is imperative to understand consumer behavior towards green smart buildings and energy-saving behaviors at workplaces to achieve sustainable development. However, previous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management and Consumer Behavior Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,398 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2020

Exploring the factors affecting residents’ electricity-saving behavior and their mechanisms of action is an important way to conserve regional energy and reduce emissions. Integrating the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and norm activation mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,378 Views
12 Pages

This paper proposes an in-home behavioral observation method employing Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. Behavioral change programs based on information provision approaches have begun to be employed in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in th...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2019‬)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,285 Views
22 Pages

Examining the Role of Organizational Culture on Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Effects of Environmental Knowledge and Attitude Toward Energy Savings

  • Luis J. Camacho,
  • Alpheaus Litheko,
  • Michael Pasco,
  • Susan R. Butac and ,
  • Patricio Ramírez-Correa,
  • Cristian Salazar-Concha and
  • Celine Paula T. Magnait
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2024

Workplace energy conservation is vital for sustainability, as it reduces environmental harm, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and conserves natural resources. Such procedures lead to significant financial savings, adherence to environmental standards...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,941 Views
23 Pages

An Investigation of Occupant Energy-Saving Behavior in Vernacular Houses of Behramkale (Assos)

  • Ebru Ergöz Karahan,
  • Özgür Göçer,
  • Kenan Göçer and
  • Didem Boyacıoğlu

6 December 2021

Despite its well-known potential to reduce energy use, the inquiry of whether vernacular architecture prompts its occupants to have energy-saving behavior has been neglected. This paper aims to investigate the influence of vernacular houses on the be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,492 Views
16 Pages

Small individual behaviors such as household energy-saving behaviors may have major environmental impacts. Individuals may combat global warming by replacing traditional light bulbs with more energy-efficient light bulbs such as LED bulbs, which save...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
14,556 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2022

People with physical impairments can help solve energy problems by participating in diverse energy-saving behaviors, such as switching off lights or turning off an air conditioner when not in use; however, they may struggle to participate in some beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,541 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2017

Design for sustainable behavior has become more important for product or service design considering environmental sustainability in the use stage. The goal of this work is to specifically help design for encouraging energy-saving behavior in selectin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Responsible Value Chains for Sustainability: Practices and Challenges from EcoBalance)
  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,028 Views
18 Pages

Review on the Importance of Gender Perspective in Household Energy-Saving Behavior and Energy Transition for Sustainability

  • Bindu Shrestha,
  • Sudarshan R. Tiwari,
  • Sushil B. Bajracharya,
  • Martina M. Keitsch and
  • Hom B. Rijal

12 November 2021

Energy-saving and efficiency represent a crucial role in achieving a clean environment as well as economic and social development, providing substantial benefits to stakeholders, including householders. Better cost savings can be achieved by simply c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,144 Views
22 Pages

26 October 2020

Accurate simulation and prediction of occupants’ energy use behavior are crucial in building energy consumption research. However, few studies have focused on household energy use behavior in severely cold regions that have unique energy use pa...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,068 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2024

The electricity-saving behavior of construction workers is helpful in reducing construction costs, protecting the ecological environment, and preventing global climate change. However, there is insufficient research on the electricity-saving behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,584 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2024

Given the escalating global energy demand driven by building energy consumption, this study is dedicated to meticulously investigating efficient energy-saving strategies in buildings, with a keen focus on the impact of occupant behavior’s rando...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,897 Views
20 Pages

Household savings are a long-term financial issue that can undermine the financial well-being of American families if not addressed. This study examines financial planning strategies through the Behavioral Life-Cycle (BLCH) hypothesis, focusing on lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,153 Views
19 Pages

Financial literacy has become critical for mitigating everyday financial risks and sustaining saving behavior, particularly in professions with stable but often constrained income such as teaching. This study examines whether financial literacy predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,123 Views
17 Pages

Examining the energy consumer behavioral model is critical for national governments and academia. This endeavor seeks to uncover effective solutions amid the energy crisis and climate change challenges. This article delves into legislative developmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,559 Views
22 Pages

14 February 2026

This study analyzes the determinants of gross saving in Jordan over the period 1991–2023, with particular attention paid to the role of macroeconomic and demographic factors in shaping saving behavior. The empirical analysis employs the Autoreg...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,354 Views
7 Pages

Exploitation of the European Research Projects Aiming to Achieve a Behavior Change for Energy Saving Through Innovative IT Solutions

  • Hanna Launonen,
  • Ana Tisov,
  • Alessia Melasecche Germini,
  • Rosamaria Olivadese and ,
  • Ksenia Koroleva,
  • Maddalena Lukasik,
  • Anna Malamou,
  • Dena Arabsolgar,
  • Evangelos Zacharis and
  • Anastasia Garbi
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Under H2020 program, the European Commission (EC) is investing in projects that aim to develop IT tools that are attractive for its users and therefore leading to a long-term behavior change for energy savings. Four of such funded projects are: BENE...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Sustainable Places 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Citations
11,656 Views
20 Pages

Psychological and Demographic Factors Affecting Household Energy-Saving Intentions: A TPB-Based Study in Northwest China

  • Xuan Liu,
  • Qiancheng Wang,
  • Hsi-Hsien Wei,
  • Hung-Lin Chi and ,
  • Yaotian Ma and
  • Izzy Yi Jian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 January 2020

Changing energy consumption behavior is a promising strategy to enhance household energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emission. Understanding the role of psychological and demographic factors in the context of energy-conservation behaviors is crit...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,750 Views
4 Pages

Determinants of Sustainable Energy Consumption in Schools

  • Daiva Dumciuviene,
  • Akvile Cibinskiene,
  • Mark Melenhorst and
  • Jasminko Novak

29 October 2018

In this paper the energy saving behavior and its impacting determinants in schools are analyzed. There is a large number of research on energy saving behavior in residential buildings. However large fraction of the total energy is consumed in public...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Economy, Sustainable Development, and Energy International Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,859 Views
18 Pages

21 December 2023

Water efficiency labeling, an environmental protection label, can provide consumers with products’ water-saving information, guide consumers to choose high-efficiency water-saving products, and encourage residents to save water. Data were obtai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,484 Views
28 Pages

24 April 2024

Reducing consumer food waste plays an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Considering the large number of colleges in China, with the largest enrollment in the world, it is especially important to address the issue of food...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Waste Management and Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,537 Views
30 Pages

25 February 2022

There are two primary ways to save energy within a building: (1) through improving building engineering structures and adopting efficient appliance ownership, and (2) through changing occupants’ energy-consuming behaviors. Unfortunately the sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,083 Views
23 Pages

Energy Consumption in Public Buildings: The Determinants of Occupants’ Behavior

  • Akvile Cibinskiene,
  • Daiva Dumciuviene and
  • Meda Andrijauskiene

11 July 2020

Considering the critical amount of power consumption in public buildings, sustainable energy use in the workplace can present an opportunity to tackle the worldwide problem of climate change. A systematic literature review revealed that, though the m...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)

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