Abstract
Environmental sustainability importance increases, the environmental degradation problems attract the discussions around the world concerning many areas of life, consumption, and disposition of goods. Green marketing and advertisement have become a popular choice by companies to influence the consumer buying process. This study aimed to examine the moderated role of green advertisement among the influence of environmental concern, social impact, and self-image on green purchase behavior. The survey sample is 458 responses from various consumers. The methodological tools were quantitative research methods. The study applied confirmatory factor analysis and moderation analysis to evaluate the six hypotheses developed and proposed in the conceptual framework. The authors performed regression and moderation analysis after achieving the model fit indices and Cronbach’s alpha. The regression analysis reveals that independent variables environmental concern, self-image, and social impact had a significant influence on green purchase behavior. Furthermore, environmental concern and self-image have a more substantial influence on green purchase behavior. The moderation results revealed that green advertisement has a positive and significant moderated relationship among environmental concern, self-image, social influence, and green purchase behavior. The obtained results indicated that marketers could increase green purchase behavior. In turn, it will allow supporting the green environment by taking the above determinants of green purchase behavior into consideration for developing green policies and strategies which are mutually beneficial for the consumer as well as for the safe environment. The findings of this study suggest that green advertisement could increase green purchase behavior. Herewith, people become greener and environment-conscious in their routine life. The authors suggested practical implications for the strategists and marketers who are willing to go green. The study results present an overview of how marketers could devise more effective strategies and advertisement to endorse the green purchase behavior. Keywords: green purchase behavior, green products, sustainable consumption, eco-friendly environment, social influence, self-image, and green advertisement.
Highlights
Environmental hazards, pollution and sustainability are the major issues of the today’s world (Li et al, 2018)
This study was based on previous studies model and found a significant impact of environmental concern, self-image and social influence
Authors tested the moderation level by adding two variables green advertising to check whether it moderates the relationship between the independent variables social influence (SI), environmental concern (EC), SIM and green purchasing behaviour (GPB)
Summary
Environmental hazards, pollution and sustainability are the major issues of the today’s world (Li et al, 2018). Due to lack of knowledge and information, these issues become more severe and challenging to the modern world. Global environmental issues such as acid rain, pollution, global warming, and dwindling natural resources become a danger to the lives of human. In today’s world, countries have started worrying about environmental issues, companies are developing environmentally friendly products, and even the demand for green products in the global consumer markets has amplified (Bhutto et al, 2019). Given the United Nations Sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the implementation of innovative sustainable technologies by companies could help to meet the United Nations 2030 agenda
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