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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Social Movements, Institutions and Governance
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1420864
This article is part of the Research Topic Integrating social aspects to improve resource recovery View all 3 articles

Spillover Effects of Rural Residents' Past Pro-Environmental Production Behavior on Their Voluntary Waste Separation Behavior

Provisionally accepted
Yuhua Teng Yuhua Teng 1Ning Li Ning Li 1Changjin Liu Changjin Liu 2*Jing Yang Jing Yang 1Yan Chen Yan Chen 3
  • 1 Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
  • 2 Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
  • 3 Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

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    Based on the survey data of rural residents in the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Area (Jiangxi), this paper empirically analyzes the spillover effect and mechanism of past pro-environmental production behavior on rural residents' voluntary garbage sorting behavior, and adopts the fsQCA to clarify the grouping paths and examines the interactive relationship among multiple factors. The results of the empirical study show that: firstly, past pro-environmental production behaviors can directly promote rural residents' voluntary garbage sorting behaviors; secondly, environmental self-identification and subjective norms have a partially mediating effect; thirdly, publicity and village regulations play a positive moderating effect. Further, the results of fsQCA analysis reaffirm the influence mechanisms, and reveal the multiple concurrent pathways through which past pro-environmental production behaviors drive the active waste sorting behaviors of rural residents. It's found that there is a substitution relationship between rural residents' past pro-environmental production behavior and publicity and education. This study enriches the theoretical explanation of the spillover of residents' pro-environmental behaviors, and provides useful ideas for stimulating rural residents' enthusiasm in active participation of rural residents in household waste sorting.

    Keywords: Rural residents, past pro-environmental production behavior, household waste sorting behavior, behavioral spillover effects, fsQCA

    Received: 21 Apr 2024; Accepted: 10 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Teng, Li, Liu, Yang and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Changjin Liu, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 130012, Jiangxi Province, China

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