Proekologiczne zachowania młodych polskich konsumentów
Pro-Ecological Behaviours of Young Polish Consumers

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter of the article concerns consumer behaviours included in the subject literature to the category of pro-ecological behaviours. The main aim of considerations is to determine the scope and frequency of such behaviours by young Polish consumers. In order to implement the assumed aim the author used the literature concerning purchasers’ behaviours, the secondary data accessible in the research works describing pro-ecological activity of Polish consumers as well as the data obtained from own research carried out in the period of February-March 2014 by the method of auditorium questionnaire on the non-random sample of 617 respondents (students of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the Torun School of Banking). Most of the persons surveyed shared the opinion that the present and the future condition of the natural environment depends on consumers’ pro-ecological activity and its improvement is not possible without the proper ecological education. On the other hand, the obtained data showed that not all respondents undertake pro-ecological behaviours and if they undertake, then in different degree and with different frequency. This is the basis for drawing the conclusion that views of young Polish consumers not always go hand in hand with the activities undertaken thereby. The reason for lack of cohesion may be, inter alia, the typical for their young age immaturity and instability in the area of their cognitive, emotional and behavioural sphere. Identification thereof indicates the need to intensify the carried out in Poland ecological education in such a way that it would be conducive in a greater degree to formation in young people (consumers) of the views recognising the need for concern for the natural environment and pro-ecological behaviours cohesive with them.

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