Responsibilities For Energy Conservation And Environmental Pollution: The Consumer Viewpoint

Abstract

This report focuses on (1) consumers' attitudes toward the responsibilities of government, textile and apparel industries, and consumers toward environmental pollution and energy conservation as related to textile and apparel products and (2) whether selected characteristics of the consumers influenced their responses. Data were generated from a mail survey of a stratified systematic sample of house holds in an urban area of south Louisiana. The views of 246 women who re sponded to the Likert statements are summarized. The women had correlated, positive attitudes toward controlling environmental pollution and conserving en ergy. However, their views did not differ, univariate or multivariate, according to familial social class, family size, and age of respondent. Consumers' views were different when the statements were categorized according to agency or group perceived to have control over the specific energy conservation or environmental pollution situation described in each statement. That is, responsibilities of textile and apparel industries for both concepts were evaluated differently from those of government, and both were evaluated differently from those of consumers.