PDF

Published

2023-08-15

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023)

Section

Research Articles

License

The journal adopts the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which means that anyone can reuse and redistribute the materials for non-commercial purposes as long as you follow the license terms and the original source is properly cited.

Author(s) shall retain the copyright of their work and grant the Journal/Publisher rights for the first publication with the work concurrently licensed since 2023 Vol.8 No.2.

Under this license, author(s) will allow third parties to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content under the condition that the authors are given credit. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher.

This broad license intends to facilitate free access, as well as the unrestricted use of original works of all types. This ensures that the published work is freely and openly available in perpetuity.

By providing open access, the following benefits are brought about:

  • Higher Visibility, Availability and Citations-free and unlimited accessibility of the publication over the internet without any restrictions increases citation of the article.
  • Ease of search-publications are easily searchable in search engines and indexing databases.
  • Rapid Publication – accepted papers are immediately published online.
  • Available for free download immediately after publication at https://esp.as-pub.com/index.php/ESP

 

Copyright Statement

1.The authors certify that the submitted manuscripts are original works, do not infringe the rights of others, are free from academic misconduct and confidentiality issues, and that there are no disputes over the authorship scheme of the collaborative articles. In case of infringement, academic misconduct and confidentiality issues, as well as disputes over the authorship scheme, all responsibilities will be borne by the authors.

2. The author agrees to grant the Editorial Office of Environment and Social Psychology a licence to use the reproduction right, distribution right, information network dissemination right, performance right, translation right, and compilation right of the submitted manuscript, including the work as a whole, as well as the diagrams, tables, abstracts, and any other parts that can be extracted from the work and used in accordance with the characteristics of the journal. The Editorial Board of Environment and Social Psychology has the right to use and sub-licence the above mentioned works for wide dissemination in print, electronic and online versions, and, in accordance with the characteristics of the periodical, for the period of legal protection of the property right of the copyright in the work, and for the territorial scope of the work throughout the world.

3. The authors are entitled to the copyright of their works under the relevant laws of Singapore, provided that they do not exercise their rights in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Journal.

About Licence

Environment and Social Psychology is an open access journal and all published work is available under the Creative Commons Licence, Authors shall retain copyright of their work and grant the journal/publisher the right of first publication, and their work shall be licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Under this licence, the author grants permission to third parties to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content with attribution to the author. No permission from the author or publisher is required.

This broad licence is intended to facilitate free access to and unrestricted use of original works of all kinds. This ensures that published works remain free and accessible in perpetuity. Submitted manuscripts, once accepted, are immediately available to the public and permanently accessible free of charge on the journal’s official website (https://esp.as-pub.com/index.php/ESP). Allowing users to read, download, copy, print, search for or link to the full text of the article, or use it for other legal purposes. However, the use of the work must retain the author's signature, be limited to non-commercial purposes, and not be interpretative.

Click to download <Agreement on the Licence for the Use of Copyright on Environmental and Social Psychology>.

How to Cite

Qiu, S., Sankar, S., Dooley, L. M., Huang, N., & Tang, W. (2023). How materialism relates to attitude toward corporate social responsibility among Chinese college students? Mediation role of environmental concern. Environment and Social Psychology, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v8i2.1591

How materialism relates to attitude toward corporate social responsibility among Chinese college students? Mediation role of environmental concern

Shaoping Qiu

Department of Leadership Studies, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Sarayu Sankar

Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, Texas A&M University

Larry M. Dooley

The TECH Group

Naizhu Huang

Higher Education Institute, Xiangnan University

Wansong Tang

School of Physical Education & Health, Hunan University of Technology and Business


DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v8i2.1591


Keywords: materialism, environmental concern, attitude toward corporate social responsibility, acquisition centrality, Chinese students

Abstract

This paper aimed (a) to examine whether materialism is related to attitude to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and (b) to test whether environmental concern mediates the relationship between materialism (and its dimensions: acquisition centrality, happiness, and success) and attitude to CSR among undergraduate students. This study used a cross-sectional research design. A questionnaire survey was used to obtain the study data. Participants were recruited from students in Chinese universities. Hayes’s PROCESS and SPSS 22 were employed to analyze the data. The results showed that materialism is negatively related to attitude toward CSR among students. Environmental concern does not mediate the relationship between materialism and attitude to CSR. The relationship between centrality and attitude to CSR was statistically significant in the two models. Happiness and attitude to CSR are positively related. The mediating effect of environmental concern on the relationship between centrality and attitude to CSR was statistically significant.

References

[1]. Smith B, Monforte J. Stories, new materialism and pluralism: Understanding, practising and pushing the boundaries of narrative analysis. Methods in Psychology 2020; 2: 100016. doi: 10.1016/j.metip.2020.100016

[2]. Atanasova A, Eckhardt GM. The broadening boundaries of materialism. Marketing Theory 2021; 21(4): 481–500. doi: 10.1177/14705931211019077

[3]. Khan KA, Yansheng WU, Aigerim D. Gratitude: Building bridges between buddhism and positive psychology. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 2021; 27(2): 929. doi: 10.47750/cibg.2021.27.02.110

[4]. Bowen HR. Social Responsibilities of the Businessman. University of Iowa Press; 2013.

[5]. Marco-Lajara B, Zaragoza-Sáez P, Falcó JM, Millan-Tudela LA. Corporate social responsibility: A narrative literature review. In: Frameworks for Sustainable Development Goals to Manage Economic, Social, and Environmental Shocks and Disasters. Engineering Science Reference; 2022. pp. 16–34.

[6]. Teixeira A, Ferreira MR, Correia A, Lima V. Students’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility: Evidences from a Portuguese higher education institution. International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing 2018; 15(2): 235–252. doi: 10.1007/s12208-018-0199-1

[7]. Jiang W, Wong JK. Key activity areas of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the construction industry: A study of China. Journal of Cleaner Production 2016; 113: 850–860. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.093

[8]. King A, Bartels W. The KPMG survey of corporate responsibility reporting 2015. Available online: https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2015/12/KPMG-survey-of-CR-reporting-2015.pdf (accessed on 6 April 2018).

[9]. Do H, Sum CC. Business student attitudes toward corporate social responsibility: A Vietnamese study. Journal of Management & Organization 2021: 1–24. doi: 10.1017/jmo.2021.28

[10]. Minson JA, Dorison CA. Toward a psychology of attitude conflict. Current Opinion in Psychology 2022; 43: 182–188. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.002

[11]. Kuzey C, Uyar A, Nizaeva M, Karaman AS. CSR performance and firm performance in the tourism, healthcare, and financial sectors: Do metrics and CSR committees matter? Journal of Cleaner Production 2021; 319: 128802. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128802

[12]. Mazereeuw-van der Duijn Schouten C, Graafland J, Kaptein M. Religiosity, CSR attitudes, and CSR behavior: An empirical study of executives’ religiosity and CSR. Journal of Business Ethics 2014; 123: 437–459. doi: 10.1007/s10551-0

[13]. Uyar A, Kuzey C, Kilic M, Karaman AS. Board structure, financial performance, corporate social responsibility performance, CSR committee, and CEO duality: Disentangling the connection in healthcare. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 2021; 28(6): 1730–1748. doi: 10.1002/csr.2141

[14]. Hamamura T. A cultural psychological analysis of cultural change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology 2018; 21(1–2): 3–12. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12194

[15]. Richins ML, Dawson S. A consumer values orientation for materialism and its measurement: Scale development and validation. Journal of Consumer Research 1992; 19(3): 303–316. doi: 10.1086/209304.

[16]. Ward S, Wackman D. Family and media influences on adolescent consumer learning. American Behavioral Scientist 1971; 14(3):415–427. doi: 10.1177/000276427101400315

[17]. Belk RW. Materialism: Trait aspects of living in the material world. Journal of Consumer Research 1985; 12(3): 265–280. doi: 10.1086/208515

[18]. Ajzen I. The theory of planned behavior. Organızational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1991; 50(2): 179–211. doi: 10.1016/0749-5978(91)90020-T

[19]. Richins ML. Special possessions and the expression of material values. Journal of Consumer Research 1994; 21(3): 522–533. doi: 10.1086/209415

[20]. Jones TM. Corporate social responsibility revisited, redefined. California Management Review 1980; 22(3): 59–67. doi: 10.2307/41164877

[21]. Kolodinsky RW, Madden TM, Zisk DS, Henkel ET. Attitudes about corporate social responsibility: Business student predictors. Journal of Business Ethics 2010; 91: 167–181.

[22]. Kasser T, Ahuvia A. Materialistic values and well‐being in business students. European Journal of social psychology 2002; 32(1): 137–146. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.85

[23]. Naatu F, Nyarko SA, Munim ZH, Alon I. Crowd-out effect on consumers attitude towards corporate social responsibility communication. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2022; 177: 121544. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121544

[24]. Abdul Z, Ibrahim S. Executive and management attitudes towards corporate social responsibility in Malaysia. Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society 2002; 2(4): 10–16. doi: 10.1108/14720700210447641

[25]. Giacalone RA, Jurkiewicz CL, Deckop JR. On ethics and social responsibility: The impact of materialism, postmaterialism, and hope. Human Relations 2008; 61(4): 483–514. doi: 10.1177/0018726708091019

[26]. Davidson RH, Dey A, Smith AJ. CEO materialism and corporate social responsibility. Accounting Review 2019; 94(1): 101–126. doi: 10.2308/accr-52079

[27]. Mathur A. Materialism and charitable giving: Can they co‐exist? Journal of Consumer Behaviour 2013; 12(3): 149–158. doi: 10.1002/cb.1404

[28]. Tandon AK, Mishra SK, Singh E. What discriminates the prospective manager’s attitude towards corporate social responsibility? An insight from psychological variables. IUP Journal of Corporate Governance 2011; 10(3): 52–70.

[29]. Takács-Sánta A. Barriers to environmental concern. Human Ecology Review 2007; 14(1): 26–38.

[30]. Gatersleben B, Jackson T, Meadows J, et al. Leisure, materialism, well-being and the environment. European Review of Applied Psychology 2018; 68(3): 131–139. doi: 10.1016/j.erap.2018.06.002

[31]. Segev S, Shoham A, Gavish Y. A closer look into the materialism construct: The antecedents and consequences of materialism and its three facets. Journal of Consumer Marketing 2015; 32(2): 85–98. doi: 10.1108/JCM-07-2014-1082

[32]. Banerjee B, McKeage K. How green is my value: Exploring the relationship between environmentalism and materialism. In: Chris TA, Deborah RJ (editors). Advances in Consumer Research. Association for Consumer Research; 1994. Volume 21. pp. 147–152.

[33]. Hurst M, Dittmar H, Bond R, Kasser T. The relationship between materialistic values and environmental attitudes and behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology 2013; 36: 257–269. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2013.09.003

[34]. Maio GR, Pakizeh A, Cheung WY, Rees KJ. Changing, priming, and acting on values: Effects via motivational relations in a circular model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2009; 97(4): 699. doi: 10.1037/a0016420

[35]. Kilbourne W, Pickett G. How materialism affects environmental beliefs, concern, and environmentally responsible behavior. Journal of Business Research 2008; 61(9): 885–893. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.09.016.

[36]. Schwartz SH. Normative influences on altruism. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 1977; 10: 221–279. doi: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60358-5

[37]. Jain SK, Kaur G. Green marketing: An attitudinal and behavioural analysis of Indian consumers. Global Business Review 2004; 5(2): 187–205. doi: 10.1177/097215090400500203

[38]. Schultz PW. New environmental theories: Empathizing with nature: The effects of perspective taking on concern for environmental issues. Journal of Social Issues 2000; 56(3): 391–406. doi: 10.1111/0022-4537.00174

[39]. Nath V, Kumar R, Agrawal R, et al. Consumer adoption of green products: Modeling the enablers. Global Business Review 2013; 14(3): 453–470. doi: 10.1177/0972150913496864

[40]. Podsakoff PM, MacKenzie SB, Podsakoff NP. Sources of method bias in social science research and recommendations on how to control it. Annual Review of Psychology 2012; 63: 539–569. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100452

[41]. Kim Y, Choi SM. Antecedents of green purchase behavior: An examination of collectivism, environmental concern, and PCE. North American Advances 2005; 32(1): 592–599.

[42]. Khurshid MA, Al-Aali A, Soliman AA, et al. Awareness of corporate social responsibility in an emerging economy. Life Science Journal 2013; 10(4): 2229–2240.

[43]. Titko J, Svirina A, Tambovceva T, Skvarciany V. Differences in attitude to corporate social responsibility among generations. Sustainability 2021; 13(19): 10944. doi: 10.3390/su131910944

[44]. Murphy MJ, MacDonald JB, Antoine GE, Smolarski JM. Exploring Muslim attitudes towards corporate social responsibility: Are Saudi business students different? Journal of Business Ethics 2019; 154: 1103–1118. doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3383-4

[45]. Kline TJ. Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach to Design and Evaluation. Sage Publications; 2005.

[46]. Cortina JM. What is coefficient alpha? An examination of theory and applications. Journal of Applied Psychology 1993; 78(1): 98. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.78.1.98

[47]. Hu L, Bentler PM. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1999; 6(1): 1–55. doi: 10.1080/10705519909540118

[48]. Change S, Witteloostuijn AV, Eden L. From the editors: Common method variance in international research. Journal of International Business Studies 2010; 41(2): 178–184. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2009.88

[49]. Tatzel M. “Money worlds” and well-being: An integration of money dispositions, materialism and price-related behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology 2002; 23(1): 103–126. doi: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00069-1

[50]. Jung CG, Schmid-Guisan H. The Question of Psychological Types. Princeton University Press; 2012.

[51]. Haski-Leventhal D, Pournader M, McKinnon A. The role of gender and age in business students’ values, CSR attitudes, and responsible management education: Learnings from the PRME international survey. Journal of Business Ethics 2017; 146: 219–239. doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2936-2

[52]. Wisse B, van Eijbergen R, Rietzschel EF, Scheibe S. Catering to the needs of an aging workforce: The role of employee age in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and employee satisfaction. Journal of Business Ethics 2018; 147: 875–888. doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2983-8



21 Woodlands Close #02-10 Primz Bizhub Singapore 737854

Email:editorial_office@as-pub.com