TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balderjahn, Ingo
A1  - Buerke, Anja
A1  - Kirchgeorg, Manfred
A1  - Peyer, Mathias
A1  - Seegebarth, Barbara
A1  - Wiedmann, Klaus-Peter
T1  - Consciousness for sustainable consumption : scale development and new insights in the economic dimension of consumers’ sustainability
JF  - AMS review : official publication of the Academy of Marketing Scienc
N2  - The “triple bottom line” concept (planet, people, and profit) represents an important guideline for the sustainable, hence future-oriented, development of societies and for the behaviors of all societal members. For institutions promoting societal change, as well as for companies being confronted with growing expectations regarding compelling contributions to sustainable changes, it is of great importance to know if, and to what extent, consumers have already internalized the idea of sustainability. Against the background of existing research gaps regarding a comprehensive measurement of the consciousness for sustainable consumption (CSC), the authors present the result of a scale development. Consciousness was operationalized by weighting personal beliefs with the importance attached by consumers to sustainability dimensions. Four separate tests of the CSC scale indicated an appropriate psychometric quality of the scale and provided support for this new measurement approach that incorporates the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Consciousness for sustainable consumption
KW  - Scale development
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-013-0057-6
SN  - 1869-814X
SN  - 1869-8182
VL  - 3
IS  - 4
SP  - 181
EP  - 192
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balderjahn, Ingo
A1  - Seegebarth, Barbara
A1  - Peyer, Mathias
A1  - Wiedmann, Klaus-Peter
T1  - The sustainability roots of anti-consumption lifestyles and initial insights regarding their effects on consumers' well-being
JF  - The Journal of consumer affairs : JCA
N2  - This article introduces the concept of sustainability-rooted anticonsumption (SRAC), which refers to consumers' anticonsumption practices of voluntary simplicity in living and, on a smaller level, collaborative consumption and boycotting with the goal of supporting sustainable economic development. The SRAC measurement approach is validated based on three empirical studies. Results of a representative German sample (Study 2) reveal that SRAC is predominantly negatively linked to consumer overconsumption dispositions. Exemplary, voluntary simplification and boycott intention may result in declining levels of indebtedness. Study 3 shows that psychosocial well-being is positively related to SRAC and overconsumption. However, a simplified lifestyle and a greater willingness to boycott are not necessarily associated with psychosocial well-being. This article provides insights for practitioners and policymakers to leverage existing SRAC values via “new” business models (sharing offers) or to influence the existing level of consciousness to effectively pave the way for solid progress in the sustainability movement.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12077
SN  - 1745-6606
VL  - 50
IS  - 1
SP  - 68
EP  - 99
PB  - ACCI
CY  - Ames, Iowa
ER  -