Document Type
Article
Article Version
Post-print
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Sustainability research has coalesced around the notion that many environmental problems can be framed as social dilemmas in which conflicts often arise between consumers’ pursuit of individual, short-term and self-directed goals and their support for collective, long-term and socially-oriented interests. The need to address this challenge is simultaneously becoming more important and challenging for macromarketers and policy makers as the incidence of individualistic consumer traits (e.g., narcissism and self-esteem), already high in general population, continues to grow throughout Western societies. This article examines why and how such individualistic tendencies (here, narcissistic exhibitionism) may impact consumers’ pro-environmental behavior. This research identifies an underlying mechanism (i.e., altruism) for the proposed effect. The potential effects of manageable boundary conditions for this relationship are also proposed and tested across four studies.
Publication Title
Journal of Macromarketing
Repository Citation
Naderi, Iman and Strutton, David, "I support sustainability but only when doing so reflects fabulously on me: can green narcissists be cultivated?" (2015). Business Faculty Publications. 185.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/business-facultypubs/185
Published Citation
Naderi, Iman, and David Strutton. "I support sustainability but only when doing so reflects fabulously on me: can green narcissists be cultivated?." Journal of Macromarketing 35, no. 1 (2015): 70-83. http://doi.org/10.1177/0276146713516796.
DOI
10.1177/0276146713516796
Peer Reviewed
Comments
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