Consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption is conceptualized as multidimensional and distinct
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The gap
Consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption is conceptualized as multidimensional and distinct from sustainable consumption attitudes, yet no study in this set empirically tests how frugality relates to or operationalizes consumer responsibility, or whether frugality strengthens the felt responsibility that bridges intention and action.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the synthesized and stated research gap and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2015 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 109 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Exploring consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption (2015) · Journal of Marketing Management · cited 91× · doi
Consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption is conceptualized as multidimensional and distinct from sustainable consumption attitudes, yet no study in this set empirically tests how frugality relates to or operationalizes consumer responsibility, or whether frugality strengthens the felt responsibility that bridges intention and action.
generalsynthesizedevidence 5/5Keywords: consumer responsibility sustainable consumption conceptualized multidimensional distinct attitudes - Measuring sustainable healthy diets in Ethiopia (2026) · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · cited 1× · doi
The existing frameworks to measure healthy diets focus on nutritional and environmental dimensions, yet less on economic and sociocultural dimensions. There is a need for a comprehensive framework that integrates all these dimensions to assess sustainable healthy diets. The paper identifies the lack of clear and comprehensive measures of sustainable healthy diets as a major research gap.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: existing frameworks measure healthy diets focus nutritional environmental - Sustainable Consumption in Context: A Cross-Cultural Study of Social Representations (2025) · Sustainability · cited 17× · doi
Expand the scope by including a larger number of participants and countries to facilitate more robust cross-cultural comparisons, - Examine the role of socio-economic status, gender, cultural values, and media influences in shaping sustainability representations, - Incorporating other domains of sustainable consumption beyond food practices to provide a more comprehensive understanding of sustainable consumption
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5Keywords: expand scope including larger number participants countries facilitate
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