**Exploring the "Energy-Saving Personality Traits" in the O** ffi**ce and Household Situation: An Empirical Study**

**Qian-Cheng Wang 1,**†**, Yi-Xuan Wang 2,**†**, Izzy Yi Jian 2,3,**†**, Hsi-Hsien Wei 2,\*, Xuan Liu 2,\* and Yao-Tian Ma 4**


Received: 11 May 2020; Accepted: 6 July 2020; Published: 9 July 2020

**Abstract:** Behavior-driven energy conservation has been a promising strategy for reducing building energy consumption as well as carbon emissions. With the intention of revealing the impacts of an individual's personality basis on energy conservation behavioral attitudes and intentions in households and o ffices, the present study proposes and conducts an experiment in Xi'an, China with two groups for the investigation of such attitudes towards household energy-saving behavior (HESB) and o ffice energy-saving behavior (OESB), respectively. The research adopts structural equation modeling for experiment data analysis. The analysis results sugges<sup>t</sup> that the two personality traits, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, are significantly related to both HESB and OESB attitudes. Especially, agreeable people tend to present stronger energy-saving attitudes, while individuals with higher Neuroticism are less likely to do so. The results indicate that the impacts of these two traits on energy-saving attitude are found to be less influenced by di fferent environment settings. Further, the results find that Extraversion positively influences energy-saving attitude in the o ffice environment, while Openness only significantly works in the household environment. It is hoped that the findings of the present study can provide informative references to energy-saving intervention design as well as further studies on the spillover of pro-environmental behaviors.

**Keywords:** energy-saving; attitude; Big Five; personality traits; o ffice; household; pro-environment
