TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seewann, Lena
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
T1  - How do people interpret the value concept?
BT  - development and evaluation of the value conceptualisation scale using a mixed method approach
JF  - Journal of beliefs and values
N2  - Value research has a long and extensive history of theoretical definitions and empirical investigations using large scale quantitative surveys. However, the way the general population understands, defines, and relates to the concept of values, and how these views vary across individuals is seldom addressed. The present study examined subjective interpretations of the term through focus group interviews, and reports on the development of a Value Conceptualisation Scale (VCS) that distinguishes six dimensions of different views on values: normativity, relevance, validity, stability, consistency, and awareness. Focus group interviews (n = 38) as well as several surveys (n = 100, n = 1519, n = 903, n = 94) were used to develop, refine, and test the scale in terms of response variety, temporal stability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity. These systematic results show that views on values do indeed vary significantly between participants. Correlations with dogmatism, preference for consistency, and metacognition were found for corresponding dimensions. The VCS provides an original measure, which enables future research to explore this variation on the conceptualisation of values.
KW  - Human values
KW  - scale development
KW  - mixed methods
KW  - focus group
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2019.1707748
SN  - 1469-9362
SN  - 1361-7672
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
SP  - 419
EP  - 432
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balderjahn, Ingo
A1  - Peyer, Mathias
A1  - Seegebarth, Barbara
A1  - Wiedmann, Klaus-Peter
A1  - Weber, Anja
T1  - The many faces of sustainability-conscious consumers
BT  - a category-independent typology
JF  - Journal of Business Research
N2  - Responding to the global call for a "sustainable economy" requires meaningful insights into sustainability-conscious consumers and their actual buying behaviors. Sustainable consumption is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon because it encompasses several distinct behavioral patterns and consumption types. Therefore, companies are well advised to recognize multiple types of sustainability-conscious consumers with different expectations, attitudes, and values and to implement targeting strategies that do not rest on the assumption of homogeneity. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide a more fine-grained picture of (un)sustainable consumer segments and their differentiated effects in different product markets. Based on three large datasets, we create a robust six-segment typology of consumer consciousness regarding sustainable consumption. By using panel data on actual purchases, the results show not only that sustainability concerns significantly positively influence actual sustainable purchases, as expected, but also that sustainable buying can occur independently of sustainability concerns.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Consumer typology
KW  - Consciousness regarding sustainable
KW  - consumption
KW  - Purchasing panel data
KW  - Human values
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.022
SN  - 0148-2963
SN  - 1873-7978
VL  - 91
SP  - 83
EP  - 93
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -