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http://dx.doi.org/10.5805/SFTI.2013.15.1.057

The Effects of Environment-conscious Consumer Attitudes towards Eco-friendly Product and Artificial Leather Fashion Product Purchase Intentions  

Park, Sung Hee (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Chung-Ang University)
Oh, Kyung Wha (Dept. of Home Economics Education, Chung-Ang University)
Na, Youn Kyu (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Chung-Ang University)
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Fashion & Textile Research Journal / v.15, no.1, 2013 , pp. 57-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research examines the environmental consciousness of fashion consumer attitudes towards eco-friendly products and artificial leather purchase intentions. The survey was conducted from March 11 to March 15 2012 and all respondents had at least once experience of purchasing fashion items made of artificial leather. A total of 426 subjects were used in the dataset; the statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and multiple analysis. The results are as follows. The study finds that environmental consciousness has three dimensions of public participation, resource conservation, and recycling. Public participation, recycling, and resource conservation influenced eco-friendly product attitudes. Eco-friendly product attitudes influenced artificial leather purchase intentions. The research results show that appropriate plans in fashion business such as usefulness of design and business value will need to be provided to fashion consumers. Detailed information on materials related to fashion products as the content of environment-friendly techniques and recycling methods will help consumers to evaluate environmental-friendly attitude products.
Keywords
environmental consciousness; eco-friendly product attitudes; consumer environmental concern; artificial leather fashion purchase intentions;
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