Personal Green IT Use: Findings from a Literature Review

@article{Wathuge2022PersonalGI,
  title={Personal Green IT Use: Findings from a Literature Review},
  author={Ayodhya Wathuge and Darshana Sedera and Golam Sorwar},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2022},
  volume={abs/2212.03074}
}
Research addressing the greening of internet user behaviours at hedonic and utilitarian levels is scarce. To identify dimensions, scales and strong relationships arising from motivation, we reviewed a sample of research articles related to the personal green IT context. We used Self-determination theory as the theoretical framework to categorize factors into different motivation dimensions. A qualitative literature review analyses five pair-wise associations between motivation constructs of the… 
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