Material energy citizenship through participation in citizen-financed photovoltaic projects

Table 6 Influence of different variables on the willingness to participate in future CiFi PV projects (results of a hierarchical multiple linear regression)

	Step I				Step II
Variables	B	SE	β	p values	B	SE	β	p values
Constant	4.114	0.519		< 0.001***	4.115	0.488		< 0.001***
Age	− 0.010	0.004	− 0.133	0.011*	− 0.007	0.004	− 0.100	0.054
Civic Engagement^a	0.044	0.060	0.033	0.467	0.029	0.056	0.022	0.604
Education^b	0.113	0.124	0.044	0.366	0.059	0.117	0.023	0.615
Male^c	0.081	0.122	0.031	0.508	0.103	0.117	0.040	0.379
Income^b	0.163	0.084	0.098	0.053	0.171	0.079	0.102	0.031*
Tenant	0.117	0.116	0.055	0.314	0.046	0.109	0.022	0.673
Housing cooperative	− 0.638	0.243	− 0.123	0.009**	− 0.643	0.229	− 0.124	0.005**
Political orientation	− 0.079	0.032	− 0.117	0.015*	− 0.066	0.031	− 0.098	0.031*
Project developer1^d	− 0.521	0.127	− 0.220	< 0.001***	− 0.564	0.122	− 0.238	< 0.001***
Project developer2^d	− 0.278	0.167	− 0.084	0.097	− 0.150	0.160	− 0.045	0.347
Project developer4^d	− 0.144	0.217	− 0.032	0.508	− 0.196	0.210	− 0.043	0.352
Project developer5^d	0.048	0.148	0.017	0.749	− 0.007	0.140	− 0.003	0.957
Environmental attributes					0.172	0.047	0.159	< 0.001***
Financial attributes					0.210	0.051	0.195	< 0.001***
Local value creation attributes					0.227	0.045	0.216	< 0.001***
Symbolic attributes					0.117	0.048	0.109	0.015*
Model statistics	Model 1				Model 2
R²	0.111***				0.226***
Adjusted R²	0.087***				0.198***
R² change	0.075				0.113
Fchange (df1, df2)	4.6 (12, 440)				16.13 (4, 436)
	N = 453				N = 453

Note: B = unstandardized regression coefficient, SE = standard error; β = standardized regression coefficient; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ^a Coding: 1 = Never, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Frequently; ^b Coding: 1 = Low, 2 = Medium, 3 = High; ^cCoding: 0 = female, 1 = male; ^d Dummy Coding: 0 = Other project developers, 1 = Project developer 1,2,4 or 5 (Reference category: Project developer 3); The political orientation scale is a continuous variable with higher values corresponding to stronger right-wing orientation (1 = left; 8 = right); Dependent variable: Willingness to participate in future CiFi PV projects

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