The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand
This study aims to examine how people's perceived characteristics of environmental risks and environmental health risks, as associated with COVID-19 infectious waste problems, affect their participation in sustainable infectious waste management behaviours (i.e. infectious waste minimization, w...
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| description | This study aims to examine how people's perceived characteristics of environmental risks and environmental health risks, as associated with COVID-19 infectious waste problems, affect their participation in sustainable infectious waste management behaviours (i.e. infectious waste minimization, waste collection awareness, and infectious waste segregation). Questionnaires were conducted with 521 people living in Bangkok, Thailand. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to validate the study variables, followed by structural equation modelling (SEM) to test how perceived characteristics of environmental risks (perceived ecological threat occurrence to the environment and perceived severity of the threat to the environment), the environmental health risks themselves (perceived ecological threat occurrence to human health and perceived severity of the threat to human health) and socio-economic characteristics influence individuals' sustainable infectious waste management behaviours. The results revealed that perceived ecological threat occurrence to the environment and human health did not statistically affect all types of sustainable infectious waste management behaviours, but perceived severity of the ecological threat to human health significantly affected individuals' infectious waste minimization and segregation. Perceived severity of the ecological threat to the environment only affected infectious waste collection awareness. In addition, the respondents' age and education level positively and significantly affected most types of behaviours, whereas income only had a negative effect on respondents' infectious waste minimization. These results provide implications for the development of communication strategies to motivate people to participate in sustainable infectious waste management behaviours. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b9418f2ecde749d2b90ec7d439f6872c2024-03-23T06:26:24ZengElsevierCleaner and Responsible Consumption2666-78432024-03-0112100175The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, ThailandPiyapong Janmaimool0Jaruwan Chontanawat1Surapong Chudech2ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, 999 Salaya, Nakhon Pathom Province, 73170, Thailand; Corresponding author.Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 126 Pracha-Uthit Rd., Thungkru, Bangkok, 10140, Thailand; The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 126 Pracha-Uthit Rd., Thungkru, Bangkok, 10140, ThailandDepartment of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 126 Pracha-Uthit Rd., Thungkru, Bangkok, 10140, ThailandThis study aims to examine how people's perceived characteristics of environmental risks and environmental health risks, as associated with COVID-19 infectious waste problems, affect their participation in sustainable infectious waste management behaviours (i.e. infectious waste minimization, waste collection awareness, and infectious waste segregation). Questionnaires were conducted with 521 people living in Bangkok, Thailand. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to validate the study variables, followed by structural equation modelling (SEM) to test how perceived characteristics of environmental risks (perceived ecological threat occurrence to the environment and perceived severity of the threat to the environment), the environmental health risks themselves (perceived ecological threat occurrence to human health and perceived severity of the threat to human health) and socio-economic characteristics influence individuals' sustainable infectious waste management behaviours. The results revealed that perceived ecological threat occurrence to the environment and human health did not statistically affect all types of sustainable infectious waste management behaviours, but perceived severity of the ecological threat to human health significantly affected individuals' infectious waste minimization and segregation. Perceived severity of the ecological threat to the environment only affected infectious waste collection awareness. In addition, the respondents' age and education level positively and significantly affected most types of behaviours, whereas income only had a negative effect on respondents' infectious waste minimization. These results provide implications for the development of communication strategies to motivate people to participate in sustainable infectious waste management behaviours.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000081Sustainable infectious waste management behaviorsEnvironmental health risk perceptionEnvironmental risk perceptionPro-environmental behaviourSustainable development |
| spellingShingle | Piyapong Janmaimool Jaruwan Chontanawat Surapong Chudech The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Sustainable infectious waste management behaviors Environmental health risk perception Environmental risk perception Pro-environmental behaviour Sustainable development |
| title | The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand |
| title_full | The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand |
| title_fullStr | The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand |
| title_short | The effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in Bangkok, Thailand |
| title_sort | effects of perceptions of environmental health risk and environmental risk on sustainable infectious waste management behaviours among citizens in bangkok thailand |
| topic | Sustainable infectious waste management behaviors Environmental health risk perception Environmental risk perception Pro-environmental behaviour Sustainable development |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000081 |
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