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Religiosity has been found to significantly influence several aspects of consumer buying behaviour. However the area remains considerably under-researched because of the attendant methodological challenges in tackling this sensitive topic. Growing environmental concerns throughout the world have pushed responsible consumption as a critical issue fo...
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... the final CFA model the 30 item ECCB scale was reduced to 13 items while the 5 items each on intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity scales loaded well and all of them were retained. (see Table 1) .633 Understand potential damage to environment some products cause, do not purchase these products .724 ...
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... A questionnaire has been prepared to collect the sample data, and a structural equation model is used to test the responses. The study's result indicates a significant positive relationship between environmentally conscious consumption behaviour and intrinsic religiosity (Islam & Chandrasekaran, 2015). The study on environmentally conscious consumption in Hungry discusses consumers' attitudes, behaviour, values and motivations towards environmental consciousness. ...
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... Siwar and Hossein (2009) have investigated being conscious to Islamic rules and the increase in accountability in social responsibilities thus implicitly referring to target consciousness. The study conducted by Islam and Chandrasekaran (2016) building on target consciousness and cognition without naming them, deals with the effects of Islamic beliefs among the Muslims on their consumption and buying behavior and the resultants effect upon the environment. Their study considers how obedience to Allah affects the individual's attention to ecological and environmental concerns. ...
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... Empirically, the association of Muslims' religiosity and their social-psychological outcomes have been proven by various studies including on personality (Elias et al., 2005;Johnstone et al., 2012), well-being, health and quality of life (Sahraian et al., 2013;Tiliouine & Belgoumidi, 2009) and political attitudes (Gonzalez, 2011). A vast and growing literature has also established direct impact of Islamic teachings as mirrored by religiosity towards Muslim behaviour in multiple fields of consumer behaviour like philanthropic behaviour (Carabain & Bekkers, 2012), enviromentally friendly consumption (Islam & Chandrasekaran, 2015), advertisement of controversial products (Fam et al., 2004), purchasing decisions (Alam et al., 2011), selection of Shari'ah compliant financial services (Metawa & Almossawi, 1998;Wan Ahmad et al., 2008;Lee & Ullah, 2011), and choice of halal consumer products (Mukhtar & Butt, 2012). ...
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... Although there is no doubt that many researchers have studied the impact of religiosity on consumption behavior, the operationalization of the religiosity construct is still ambiguous (El-Menouar, 2014;Hassan, 2014;Ali et al., 2019a;Aslam et al., 2019). Moreover, a debate regarding religiosity as a unidimensional or multidimensional construct is discussed in several studies (El-Menouar, 2014;Islam and Chandrasekaran, 2015;Souiden and Rani, 2015;Felix and Braunsberger, 2016;Souiden et al., 2018), but the adoption of Glock (1972), multidimensional religiosity model, has been highly appreciated by most of the researchers (Niaz, 2020). Moreover, in the recent study of counterfeiting products, it is emphasized that researchers should use the multidimensional religiosity model in future studies for a better understanding of phenomena (Souiden et al., 2018). ...
Counterfeiting has become a prevalent business worldwide, resulting in high losses for many businesses. Considerable attention has been paid to research an individual attitude toward purchasing luxury counterfeit products in the offline context. However, there is currently lesser-known literature on the given phenomenon in the context of social commerce. Moreover, researchers observed that counterfeiting consumption is associated with consumer ethical values or beliefs. Practitioners and researchers are keen to find those factors that affect consumers’ ethical consumption behavior to reduce pirated products’ demand. However, the role of religion in shaping ethical behavior is less documented in the counterfeiting context. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of religiosity on the counterfeiting of luxury products in Pakistan. A five-dimensional Islamic religiosity model was adopted to understand the consumption phenomena. For quantitative research, cross-sectional data were collected from the generation M of Pakistan through self-administrative questionnaires. A total of 394 valid responses from active online users were collected to empirically examine the conceptual model by employing the partial least square structural equation model (PLS-SEM). The results reveal that all five dimensions of religiosity negatively affect the attitude of generation M. Moreover, it is found that knowledge has the highest negative effect on attitude, followed by orthopraxis, experience, central duties, and basic duties. The study also explains the theoretical and practical implications of the research. Finally, limitations and future research were also discussed.
... By contrast, due to its strong social orientation, extrinsic religiosity positively correlates with the willingness to donate organs (Ryckman et al., 2006) and negatively correlates with altruism (Chau et al., 1990). Interestingly, extrinsic religiosity is uncorrelated with consumers' attitudes towards green products (Chai and Tan, 2013), ecologically conscious consumption behavior (Islam and Chandrasekaran, 2015), and consumer ethics (Arli and Tjiptono, 2012;Vitell et al., 2007). Notwithstanding these results, studies indicate that although intrinsic religiosity is distinct from extrinsic religiosity but may be positively related with each other (Donahue, 1985). ...
Purpose
This paper uses social identity theory to investigate the sequential mediating effects of extrinsic religiosity and perceived role of religious leaders in the impact of consumers' intrinsic religiosity on perceived value of brands endorsed by religious leaders.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper comprises two survey-based studies with urban consumers in two emerging markets, India ( N = 303) and Indonesia ( N = 150).
Findings
Intrinsic religiosity has a direct positive effect on extrinsic religiosity, which in turn mediates the effect of intrinsic religiosity on the perceived value of the brands endorsed by religious leaders in both India and Indonesia. However, extrinsic religiosity has a significant positive effect on the perceived value of these brands through the perceived role of religious leaders in India but not in Indonesia.
Research limitations/implications
Samples for both the studies are drawn from urban consumers in India and Indonesia, which also have large rural populations. Hence, future research may use both urban and rural samples from other countries to replicate our results.
Practical implications
The study findings may help both local and global brand managers in the emerging markets with religious societies, such as India and Indonesia, to understand how they may use endorsements by religious leaders to manage the differences in the impact of consumers' intrinsic versus extrinsic religiosity on their brand perceptions and evaluations.
Originality/value
This paper extends social identity theory to the international marketing context by showing that religious consumers in the emerging markets are likely to support the brands endorsed by religious leaders vis-à-vis other national or multinational brands. Thus, religious identification offers a unique sacred worldview and unlimited group membership, unlike other social groups, especially in the highly religious emerging markets.
... India and the UK. At the same time, however, despite the fact that both Saudi Arabia and the UAE fall within the top countries in the world in terms of purchasing power in 2020 (Knoema, 2021), our understanding of the role of religiosity on consumer choice in general in the Gulf region is still in its infancy (Mathras et al., 2016;Islam and Chandrasekaran, 2016). For instance, Floren et al. (2020) included only two studies focusing on Saudi Arabia and two on Religious affiliation and religiosity the UAE in their overview, none of which focus on religiosity, whereas other recent studies in the Gulf region have tended to focus on specific market sectors, such as luxury branding or on the development of cities such as Dubai as a center for halal tourism, but not on the influence of religiosity. ...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether including an Islamic appeal in a culture-neutral product advertisement has a positive effect on consumer attitudes to the advertisement leading to higher purchase intentions while considering religious affiliation and religiosity as moderating factors of the relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
Conditional process analysis was applied to examine the mediation of the relationship between ad version and purchase intention through attitude to the advertisement as well as the moderating role of religious affiliation and religiosity among 819 consumers within the Dubai market.
Findings
The analysis in this paper revealed that including an Islamic appeal in an advertisement does not have a positive effect on attitude to the advertisement or purchase intention, neither for Muslim consumers in general nor for Muslim consumers with high levels of religiosity. Conversely, including an Islamic appeal has a significant negative effect on the purchase intentions of Christian consumers within the Dubai market, as well as on those consumers who did not state their religious affiliation.
Research limitations/implications
Marketers should reconsider the use of Islamic appeals in product advertising, especially in relation to the promotion of culture-free products within diverse expatriate populations such as that represented by the Emirate of Dubai.
Originality/value
This study sheds light on the underexplored role of religious affiliation and religiosity in relationship to consumer behavior within the field of Islamic marketing in a major retail hub in the Middle East.
... Spiritual support from religion is largely satisfied and emphasized by the religious adherents comparing with the material position [22]. Moreover, religion and its various religious traditions/activities have been proven to be associated with ecological consciousness and attitudes [23,24], which are likely to determine the degree of environmental preferences [25] and sustainable energy behaviors [26]; Wuaglione et al., 2017; [27]. They even potentially affect household fuel choices [16,28]. ...
... Indeed, a growing body of studies emphasizes that sociocultural factors, for instance, lifestyles, consciousness and religions, influence energy consumption behaviors from both macroand micro-perspectives [23,27,28,38,39,40]. In particular, negative association between religiosity and energy poverty have been proved at the aggregate level [20]. ...
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... Comprehensive Muslim religiosity can be seen from behavior or activities (Islam), belief in God (Faith), and the spirit of self-actualization to do good and benevolence (Ihsan) [4]. A number of studies on the relationship between religiosity and environmentally friendly behavior have been carried out, both in Indonesia and in other countries [5]- [11]. However, there is no research that uses the Muslim religiosity scale comprehensively to measure the influence of religiosity factors on environmentally friendly behavior of Muslims in Indonesia. ...
Abstract. Environmental sustainability is a very important issue today because it is related to the continuity of human life on earth. Various studies have proven that the current ecological crisis has caused the existence of the environment to be significantly threatened. In the Islamic perspective, the ecological crisis is basically related to spiritual crisis. The objective of this study is to analyse the
influence the level of religiosity to eco-literacy and environmental concern towards ecologically conscious behaviour among Moslem Society in Indonesia. This explationary research tries to explore the causal relationship between variables through hypothesis testing, by collecting data from 210 respondents through a questionnaire. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the influence of three levels of religiosities-Islam, Faith, Ihsan-to the mediating variable: eco-literacy and environmental concern, and then how does this mediating variable affect the ecologically conscious behaviour. The findings suggest that religiosity can play an important role in determining ecologically conscious behaviour among Muslim society in Indonesia. Keywords: Green Behaviour; Green Consumption; Structural Equation Modelling; Moslem Religiosity
... The present study proposed that environmental education is positively related to ecologically friendly behavior directly and indirectly (via environmental responsibility). Furthermore, given the importance of Islamic values on environmental protection, such as environmental balancing, environmental awareness, and resource conservation (water, trees, etc.) [19], Islamic values were proposed as a boundary condition to the previously proposed relationships in the current study (refer to Figure 1 for the conceptual framework of the study). ...
... The present study proposed that environmental education is positively related to ecologically friendly behavior directly and indirectly (via environmental responsibility). Furthermore, given the importance of Islamic values on environmental protection, such as environmental balancing, environmental awareness, and resource conservation (water, trees, etc.) [19], Islamic values were proposed as a boundary condition to the previously proposed relationships in the current study (refer to Figure 1 for the conceptual framework of the study). This study contributes to the literature in two significant ways. ...
... Increased knowledge and environmentally conscious behavior are two of the most debated educational outcomes in the literature. Numerous studies have been conducted on the return of education [11,19,23]. ...
With increasing global environmental problems, considerable evidence now suggests that environmental education can influence students’ ecologically friendly behavior significantly. Addressing increased environmental problems requires better understanding of the relations between focused and explicit environmental education, environmental responsibility, and religious values. The current study examined the relationship between environmental education and ecologically friendly behavior, utilizing insights from resource conservation theory. The relationship between the variables mentioned above was examined to determine the mediating effect of environmental responsibility and the moderating effect of Islamic values. Through a cross-sectional approach, data were gathered from 413 university students. The data were analyzed using analytical techniques such as “structural equation modeling” and “PROCESS.” The study’s findings support the predicted conceptual model, indicating that environmental education was positively related to environmentally friendly behavior. Furthermore, environmental responsibility partially mediated the relationship above, whereas Islamic values positively moderated the relationships between environmental education and ecologically friendly behavior as well as between environmental education and environmental responsibility. These findings emphasize the critical role of environmental education and Islamic values in comprehending the ecological behaviors of Muslim students.
