心理科学 ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 1180-1187.DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20230519

• 社会、人格与管理 • 上一篇    下一篇

数字化绿色行为溢出效应:身份感的中介和心理所有权的调节 *

佘升翔1,2, 李事成3, 陈璟**4,5, 盛光华6   

  1. 1广州工商学院商学院,广州,528138;
    2贵州财经大学中国西部绿色发展战略研究院,贵阳,550025;
    3贵州财经大学工商管理学院,贵阳,550025;
    4成都师范学院四川中小学安全教育与管理研究中心,成都,611130;
    5成都师范学院文学与新闻学院,成都,611130;
    6吉林大学商学与管理学院,长春,130012
  • 出版日期:2023-09-20 发布日期:2023-11-07
  • 通讯作者: **陈璟,E-mail: cjbelinda@126.com
  • 基金资助:
    *本研究得到2023年度贵州省高校人文社会科学研究基地项目(23RWJD130)、2021年度广东省重点建设学科科研能力提升项目(2021ZDJS121)和四川省科技计划项目软科学项目( 2021JDR0349 )的资助

Spillover Effect of Digital Green Behavior: Mediation of Identity and Moderation of Psychological Ownership

She Shengxiang1,2, Li Shicheng3, Chen Jing4,5, Sheng Guanghua6   

  1. 1Business School, Guangzhou college of Technology and Business, Guangzhou, 528138;
    2Western China Green Development Strategy Research Institute, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025;
    3School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025;
    4Sichuan Primary and Secondary School Safety Education and Management Research Center, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu, 611130;
    5School of Literature and Journalism, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu, 611130;
    6Business School, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012
  • Online:2023-09-20 Published:2023-11-07

摘要: 绿色行为的数字化是移动互联网时代的新现象,本研究聚焦蚂蚁森林的绿色能量收集行为,通过线上情境模拟研究揭示了数字化绿色行为的正向溢出效应及其影响机制。结果表明,个体的绿色能量收集行为能正向影响其对蚂蚁森林的进一步支持,环境自我身份在这种溢出效应中发挥了中介作用,心理所有权正向调节了绿色能量收集行为的溢出过程。这说明引导人们参与有趣易行的数字化绿色行为并提高其心理所有权,有助于促进其后续的亲环境行为。

关键词: 数字化绿色行为, 蚂蚁森林, 亲环境行为溢出, 心理所有权, 环境自我身份

Abstract: Digital green behavior refers to digitizing the pro-environmental behaviors in people's daily life by means of information technology and recording, presenting and disseminating it in the internet world in the form of text, graphics and video, so as to endow it with symbolic, playful, social and other attributes. This study takes the green energy collection behavior of Alibaba ant forest as the research object to gain insight into the impact of previous digital green behavior on individuals' subsequent digital green behavior and the mechanism. Ant forest is an environmental public welfare project launched by Alibaba in China. It transforms the green life behaviors of Alipay users such as walking, public transportation, and online payment into digital green energy. When green energy is collected to a certain quantity, users can apply for planting trees or protecting a nature reserve. Based on the literature of pro-environmental behavior spillover effect, environmental self-identity and psychological ownership, this study constructed a conceptual model of digital green behavior spillover effect, and put forward four hypotheses. H1: Green energy collection behavior can positively affect ant forest support. H2: Environmental self-identity can mediate the impact of green energy collection behavior on ant forest support. H3: Psychological ownership can positively moderate the impact of green energy collection behavior on ant forest support. H4: Psychological ownership can positively moderate the impact of environmental self-identity on ant forest support.
This study adopted a 2 (green energy collection behavior: high, low) × 2 (psychological ownership: strong, neutral) between-subject experimental design. The mediating variable is environmental self-identity, and the dependent variable is ant forest support intention, including purchase intention of products from the ant forest and donation amount willing to provide for reserves. Relying on the "Credamo", a professional survey platform in China, we designed the questionnaire and used the sample tracking function, and finally got 199 valid answers. The study was divided into two stages. In the first stage, the questionnaire was distributed to find two groups of subjects with different levels of green energy collection behavior, and then the high-level and low-level groups were randomly divided into two groups respectively. In the second stage, the psychological ownership manipulation was carried out. Drawing on the practice of peck et al. (2021), we primed psychological ownership by highlighting that the reserve or trees are named by the subjects' nicknames.
The results showed that: (1) Green energy collection behavior had a significant positive impact on purchase intention and pro-environmental donation. (2) Environmental self-identity mediated the relationship between green energy collection behavior and support intention. (3) Psychological ownership moderated the impact of environmental self-identity on ant forest support intention. For those who primed strong psychological ownership, the positive impact of environmental self-identity on purchase intention was obviously stronger than the counterpart. In addition, in neutral conditions, environmental self-identity had no significant impact on pro-environmental donation, while in the condition of strong psychological ownership, environmental self-identity had a significant positive impact on pro-environmental donation. This study expands the research on pro-environmental behavior spillover, deepens the understanding of psychological ownership, and contributes a useful exploration for promoting human sustainable behavior through digital pro-environmental behavior.

Key words: digital green behavior, ant forest, pro-environmental behavior spillover, psychological ownership, environmental self-identity