A self-identity based model of electric car adoption intention: Across-cultural comparative study

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-160

  Barbarossa, Camilla ^a   Beckmann, Suzanne C ^b   De Pelsmacker, Patrick ^c   Moons, Ingrid ^c   Gwozdz, Wencke ^b  

^a LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitude toward and intention to adopt electric cars; Cross cultural comparison; Environmental concern; Green moral obligation; Green self identity; Multi group analysis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928320775     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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