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The Impact of Consequences Awareness of Public Environment on Medicine Return Behavior: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model

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  • Jun Lv

    (Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China)

  • Xuan Liu

    (Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China)

  • Sivhuang Lay

    (Logistics Management, Delivery Hero Co., LTD, Phnom Penh 12309, Cambodia)

Abstract

With global aging trends and prosperity in the medicine market, the number of unused or expired household unused or expired medicines is increasing. Medicines which are discarded improperly result in serious pollution. From the perspective of behavioral science, the main contribution of this paper is the construction of a chain mediation model to analyze the influence mechanism between consequences awareness of the public environment and proper return behavior of unused or expired medicines. The model explores the moderating effect of personal health awareness with through observation of to the mediating effect of personal norms and return intention. Using a sample size of 366 residents from China, the proposed hypotheses are empirically tested. The results show: firstly, the direct effect of residents’ consequences awareness of public environmental awareness on the proper medicine return behavior is not significant; secondly, return intention plays a mediating role in the positive effect of consequences awareness of the public environment on proper return behavior; thirdly, personal norms and return intention play a chain mediating role in the positive impact of consequences awareness of the public environment on proper return behavior; and lastly, personal health awareness moderates the chain mediation path by strengthening the positive effect of return intention on proper return behavior.

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  • Jun Lv & Xuan Liu & Sivhuang Lay, 2021. "The Impact of Consequences Awareness of Public Environment on Medicine Return Behavior: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(18), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:18:p:9756-:d:637074
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