Distinguishing between green building occupants' reasoned and unplanned behaviours

作者：Hewitt Elizabeth L^*; Andrews Clinton J^*; Senick Jennifer A^*; Wener Richard E^*; Krogmann Uta^*; Allacci MaryAnn Sorensen^*

来源：Building Research and Information, 2016, 44(2): 119-134.

DOI：10.1080/09613218.2015.1015854

• consumption
• environmental beliefs
• habits
• household
• inhabitants
• occupant behaviour
• reasoned behaviour
• residential
• values

Several frameworks incorporate social and psychological elements of environmentally significant behaviour, and most assume cognitive and deliberate decision-making. Household energy consumption behaviours, however, span a spectrum from reasoned and deliberate to unplanned and automatic. The aim of this paper is to advance knowledge of reasoned and unplanned behaviours in the context of pro-environmental action. Using results of a survey administered to occupants of an urban residential green building, this study explores five household consumption behaviours and tests the hypothesis that unplanned behaviours will be poorly predicted by a reasoned, values-based behavioural framework. Using path analyses, variables in a values-based framework are used to predict surveyed behaviours. Findings indicate that behaviours hypothesized to be unplanned were not well predicted by the values-based framework. The framework successfully predicted what was hypothesized to be a fully reasoned behaviour. Three potential reasons are discussed for the lack of prediction of some behaviours. A deeper understanding of how unplanned, automatic or habitual behaviours intervene in conservation intentions can help policy-makers and building designers better respond to influences of occupant behaviour on building performance.

• 出版日期2016-2-17