An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini

The main objective of this research is to investigate the influences of penalty and reward on households’ intention towards separating recyclable materials at source. People participation in recycling activities is the most important factor of prosperity of recycling programs; therefore investigatin...

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Main Author:	Amini, Farshad
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16273/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16273/2/TM_FARSHAD%20AMINI%20AM%2014_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-162732019-02-20T03:42:47Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16273/ An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini Amini, Farshad The main objective of this research is to investigate the influences of penalty and reward on households’ intention towards separating recyclable materials at source. People participation in recycling activities is the most important factor of prosperity of recycling programs; therefore investigating recycling from psychological aspect is a proper approach to detect the fundamental factors affecting a successful recycling program. This research used Reasoned Action Approach to investigate the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. For this purpose, the mediating roles of psychological factors namely attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, moral norms, situational factors, and consequent of recycling were investigated. 384 questionnaires were distributed and data were analyzed by statistical package for social science (SPSS). Findings showed that, attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, moral norms, and consequent of recycling partially mediate penalty and reward on recycling intention. Moreover, findings showed perceived behavioral control as the weakest factor affecting recycling intention, also it showed the strong effect from penalty on perceived behavioral control; therefore, based on literature review it is suggested to apply penalty to change behavioral control beliefs in order to increase households’ recycling intention. In Sum, findings of this study show the effectiveness of both penalty and reward to increase recycling intention which is crucial and useful for designing, enforcing, and administrating financial incentive based programs like ‘Pay-As-You-Throw’ in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. 2014 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16273/2/TM_FARSHAD%20AMINI%20AM%2014_5.pdf Amini, Farshad (2014) An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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description	The main objective of this research is to investigate the influences of penalty and reward on households’ intention towards separating recyclable materials at source. People participation in recycling activities is the most important factor of prosperity of recycling programs; therefore investigating recycling from psychological aspect is a proper approach to detect the fundamental factors affecting a successful recycling program. This research used Reasoned Action Approach to investigate the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. For this purpose, the mediating roles of psychological factors namely attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, moral norms, situational factors, and consequent of recycling were investigated. 384 questionnaires were distributed and data were analyzed by statistical package for social science (SPSS). Findings showed that, attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, moral norms, and consequent of recycling partially mediate penalty and reward on recycling intention. Moreover, findings showed perceived behavioral control as the weakest factor affecting recycling intention, also it showed the strong effect from penalty on perceived behavioral control; therefore, based on literature review it is suggested to apply penalty to change behavioral control beliefs in order to increase households’ recycling intention. In Sum, findings of this study show the effectiveness of both penalty and reward to increase recycling intention which is crucial and useful for designing, enforcing, and administrating financial incentive based programs like ‘Pay-As-You-Throw’ in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.
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title	An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini
title_short	An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini
title_full	An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini
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An investigation into the influences of penalty and reward on households’ recycling intention in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur / Farshad Amini

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