Openness to Experience and Green Purchase Behavior: A Multiple Mediation Analysis

• Main Authors: Apoorva Bhatnagar, Sidhi Verma, Vinod K Singh, Aparajita Dasgupta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: HATASO 2020-08-01
• Series: Management and Economics Research Journal
• Subjects: big five; green purchase behavior; mediation analysis; process macro; openness to experience
• Online Access: https://merj.scholasticahq.com/article/16679-openness-to-experience-and-green-purchase-behavior-a-multiple-mediation-analysis

The aim of this study was to examine if there is an effect of openness to experience on green purchase behavior. Furthermore, the study also aimed to analyze if the attitude toward advertisement and green product knowledge mediates the relationship between openness to experience and green purchase behavior. The data for this study were collected in front of malls and departmental stores of Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) with the help of survey method. The population consists of both the purchasers and non-purchasers of green products. Two hundred and fifty people participated in the study, out of which 200 questionnaires were used for data analysis after cleaning the data. To test the hypotheses, hierarchical multiple regression was conducted using model 4 of Process Macro. The findings of this study indicate that openness to experience strongly predicts green purchase behavior but no mediation effect of green product knowledge and attitude toward advertisements are seen. This study finds its importance in the fact that there has been a rise in the environmental concerns which may induce consumers to indulge into green purchase behavior. This study is one of the first, at least to the authors’ knowledge, to empirically examine and confirm the effect of openness to experience on green purchase behavior as well as check the mediation effect of green product knowledge and attitude toward advertisement.