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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Switching to Green Lifestyles: Behavior Change of Ant Forest Users.

Zhaojun Yang, Xiangchun Kong, Jun Sun, Yali Zhang

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Motivations Influencing Alipay Users to Participate in the Ant Forest Campaign: An Empirical Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  5. Research on the Impact of Pro-Environment Game and Guilt on Environmentally Sustainable Behaviour.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 authors.

Zhaojun YangSchool of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China. zhaojunyang@xidian.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-0164-1577
Xiangchun KongSchool of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China. chunkx@163.com.
Jun SunCollege of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA. jun.sun@utrgv.edu.
Yali ZhangSchool of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. zhangyl@nwpu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-6158-1791

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ant Forest is an emerging mobile application platform that engages people in environment-friendly behavior with fragmented time and helps them cultivate ecological awareness and habit. Users grow virtual trees on the platform with the energy saved from daily low-carbon activities, and Ant Forest plants real saplings in desertified areas when the "trees" become big enough. Facilitating the public's participation in such green welfare, Ant Forest is a new-generation persuasive system with functions like social media and gamification. In addition to perceived persuasiveness in the existing literature, this study includes sense of achievement and perceived entertainment as extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, respectively, to explain people's continuous use of such a system and consequent behavior change. The results of a survey suggest that primary task support, perceived credibility, and perceived social support associated with Ant Forest positively affect the user's continuance intention through the mediation of perceived persuasiveness, sense of achievement, and perceiving entertaining. Furthermore, perceived persuasiveness and continuance intention lead to ultimate behavior change. The findings suggest the importance of both persuasive and motivational considerations in the implementation of new-generation persuasive systems to make them effective in the long run.

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Life StyleMotivationPersuasive CommunicationSocial BehaviorAchievementHumansIntentionMobile ApplicationsSocial SupportTreesAnt Forestcontinuance intentionindividual behavior changemotivation theorypersuasive system

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PMID30142899
PMCPMC6164512

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