Most of the studies on green consumer behaviour have evaluated environmental
behaviour based on the self-reported claims in response to the questionnaire items (Steg
and Vlek, 2009). Though a large number of studies have found a difference between
behaviour intentions of environmentally conscious consumers and their actual
behaviour, Dijksterhuis et al. (2005) conceptualized the influence of perception
on behaviour and advocated strong linkage between perception and behaviour. Hence,
the approach of self-reported claims in response to the questionnaire items seems to be
effective for such studies. Also, the questionnaire method is preferred because it allows
collecting many responses in a short period of time (Ozaki and Sevastyanova, 2011),
hence is suitable for market research. Thus, in order to test and quantify the
relationships hypothesized, a questionnaire-based survey approach was adopted. The
38 items questionnaire was composed of two sections. In first part, it examined
the environmental dimensions of consumer behaviour and the items were adopted from
the literature based on New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale. Designed by Dunlap
and Van Liere (1978), NEP scale is a widely used scale for measuring environmental
dimensions of consumers. This scale was developed with the aim of investigating