Intention to Recycle Mobile Phones: Gender Comparison


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Öncel A. G., Plaisent M., Zuccaro C., Zheng L., Bernard P.

IBIMA Business Review, cilt.2023, ss.1-13, 2023 (Scopus)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2023
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5171/2023.238071
  • Dergi Adı: IBIMA Business Review
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-13
  • Galatasaray Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper aims at providing a better understanding in the propensity of university students to recycling their mobile phones and comparing males and females in this regard. Despite many studies that have discussed the students' habits for this purpose, very few have studied deeply the differences between genders. Among the many potentially relevant differences, namely incentives and deterrents, knowledge and awareness are included. This study used a cross-sectional design to portrait the actual situation with a questionnaire distributed widely across university administrators in Turkey who relayed it to their students. A total of 772 answers were received from 74 universities. The questionnaire was built around the past behavior and its reasons, the intention to recycle and its motives. After eliminating improper respondents from the sample, several analyses were conducted with SPSS, namely intensive descriptive statistics and a series of t-tests and Xi2 to test gender effect on most of the questions. As can be expected, the data analysis has showed differences in the reasons invoked to change their devices and less expectation of a financial counterpart to decide on a disposal mode. Female students are less inclined to keep their old phones as a memento; instead, they plan more for a safe disposal or a potential re-use, which shows a possible reason why they attribute less value than males to their old devices. Surprisingly, female students have less knowledge about e-waste than male students, but they are far more concerned about environment.