Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study explores the motivational mechanisms underlying people's prosumption tendency.Prosumption refers to people producing goods and services for their own consumption.Although prosumption experiences are omnipresent in our daily life, few empirical and theoretical studies have addressed this phenomenon.In the current study, a theoretical framework that incorporates values and attitude-behavior relation theories has been developed and tested in the empirical context offood prosumption.It was hypothesized that the influence flows from global values to domain-specific values and then to specific attitudes and behavior in food prosumption.Domain-specific values are values people attach to a specific domain.Three groups of hypotheses are proposed for the situation of preparing a dinner for friends for Norwegians.These address the relationships among global values, domain-specific values, and attitudes, the relationship between domainspecific values and the theory of trying, and the relationship within the theory of trying, respectively.Moreover, open questions were raised for the possible influence of situational differences and cultural variation on the predictability of the theory of trying.A survey
Author: Chunyan Xie
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2473881138