Rural Residents’ Willingness to Adopt Energy-Saving Technology for Buildings and Their Behavioral Response Path
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Hypotheses
3. Data Sources and Descriptions of Variables
3.1. Data Sources
3.2. Variables’ Selection and Description
3.3. Reliability and Validity Test
4. Empirical Analysis
4.1. Model Results
4.2. Path Analysis
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Latent Variable | Index | Observed Variable | Variable Code | Mean | Standard Deviation |
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Building Technology Adoption Behavior (BTAB) | Whether to adopt or not | Whether building energy-saving technology has been adopted | BTAB1 | 0.38 | 0.486 |
Adopt proportions | The ratio of the renovated area to the actual living area | BTAB2 | 1.62 | 2.110 | |
Adoption period | The number of years that a building is used after it has been retrofitted with energy-efficient technologies | BTAB3 | 1.04 | 1.434 | |
Behavioral Intention (BI) | Willingness to adopt | Willingness to experiment with building energy-saving technology in retrofits | BI1 | 3.91 | 1.041 |
Willingness to promote | Willingness to recommend the use of building energy-saving technology to others | BI2 | 3.77 | 0.961 | |
Willingness to continue to provide personal household usage data for the application of building energy-saving technology | BI3 | 3.57 | 0.968 | ||
Behavioral Attitude (BA) | Economic tendency | The use of building energy-saving technology can help reduce energy consumption and save money | BA1 | 3.77 | 0.933 |
The use of building energy-saving technology can be subsidized more often | BA2 | 3.48 | 0.930 | ||
Ecological tendency | The use of building energy-saving technology can improve the air quality in homes | BA3 | 3.76 | 0.998 | |
The use of energy-saving technology in buildings is conducive to environmental protection | BA4 | 3.63 | 0.984 | ||
Subjective Norms (SN) | Exemplary norm | I know that there are more rural residents who use building energy-saving technology | SN1 | 3.37 | 0.926 |
I regularly communicate the possibilities of energy-saving technology in buildings | SN2 | 3.29 | 0.995 | ||
Directive norm | The publicity and promotion of the application of building energy-saving technology is greater | SN3 | 3.64 | 0.970 | |
The subsidy support for the application of building energy-saving technology is relatively strong | SN4 | 3.53 | 0.984 | ||
Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC) | Self-efficacy | The installation of building energy-saving technology is easy to learn and execute | PBC1 | 2.35 | 1.062 |
The maintenance of building energy-saving technology is easy to implement | PBC2 | 2.52 | 1.069 | ||
Service environment | The installation of building energy-saving technology is guided throughout the process | PBC3 | 2.48 | 1.146 | |
The maintenance parts of building energy-saving technology are fully guaranteed | PBC4 | 2.43 | 1.110 |
Path | Estimate | S.E. | C.R. | p | Standardized Estimate |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AB<---SN | 0.94 | 0.007 | 135.649 | *** | 0.944 |
BI<---SN | 0.339 | 0.019 | 18.275 | *** | 0.318 |
BI<---BA | 0.685 | 0.019 | 36.906 | *** | 0.639 |
BI<---PBC | 0.016 | 0.005 | 3.592 | *** | 0.017 |
BATA<---BI | 0.251 | 0.005 | 46.651 | *** | 0.524 |
BATA<---PBC | 0.024 | 0.005 | 4.679 | *** | 0.051 |
AB4<---BA | 1 | / | / | / | 0.949 |
BA3<---BA | 0.994 | 0.004 | 227.039 | *** | 0.93 |
BA2<---BA | 0.909 | 0.007 | 137.916 | *** | 0.909 |
BA1<---BA | 0.992 | 0.005 | 217.261 | *** | 0.992 |
PBC4<---PBC | 1 | / | / | / | 0.942 |
PBC3<---PBC | 1.065 | 0.004 | 240.279 | *** | 0.973 |
PBC2<---PBC | 0.997 | 0.005 | 185.557 | *** | 0.976 |
PBC1<---PBC | 0.973 | 0.006 | 170.097 | *** | 0.958 |
SN4<--- SN | 1 | 0.954 | |||
SN3<---SN | 0.968 | 0.006 | 169.271 | *** | 0.936 |
SN2<---SN | 0.962 | 0.007 | 141.074 | *** | 0.907 |
SN1<---SN | 0.954 | 0.005 | 190.403 | *** | 0.967 |
BI1<---BI | 1 | / | / | / | 0.952 |
BI2<---BI | 0.925 | 0.005 | 175.03 | *** | 0.954 |
BI3<---BI | 0.93 | 0.005 | 178.196 | *** | 0.958 |
BTBA1<---BATA | 1 | / | / | / | 0.956 |
BTBA2<---BATA | 4.382 | 0.011 | 397.924 | *** | 0.953 |
BTBA3<---BATA | 2.728 | 0.025 | 110.686 | *** | 0.952 |
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Li, S.; Hu, W. Rural Residents’ Willingness to Adopt Energy-Saving Technology for Buildings and Their Behavioral Response Path. Buildings 2024, 14, 892. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14040892
Li S, Hu W. Rural Residents’ Willingness to Adopt Energy-Saving Technology for Buildings and Their Behavioral Response Path. Buildings. 2024; 14(4):892. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14040892
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Shilong, and Wenwen Hu. 2024. "Rural Residents’ Willingness to Adopt Energy-Saving Technology for Buildings and Their Behavioral Response Path" Buildings 14, no. 4: 892. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14040892