Hossein Mirzaei; Hamed Sayarkhalaj; Majid Fatemi Khesal; Mohammad Khanmohammadi
Abstract
Today, environmental problems have social roots and, thus, it is important to know the attitudes of individuals about the environment. In this regard, the research with the aim of study the factors related with environmental attitude in the high school students the has been done. The statistical population ...
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Today, environmental problems have social roots and, thus, it is important to know the attitudes of individuals about the environment. In this regard, the research with the aim of study the factors related with environmental attitude in the high school students the has been done. The statistical population of this research, were high school students of Tehran that 450 individuals were selected by using of cluster random sampling by using of Cochran formula. The research is of survey type and questionnaire is the tool of data collecting. The questionnaire Validity is of formal type and its reliability is measured using Cronbach's alpha. The results show that is benefit from informed sources and Imagination of the family's environmental performance has a significant relationship with the environmental awareness. Also environemtal awareness and environemtal values has a significant relationship with the environmental attitude. Results of regression analysis show that, according to the adjusted coefficient of determination variables in the regression equation, 18% of the variance of the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables; and environmental values, has the greatest total effect on the environmental attitude.
A. Zareshahababadi; Sayarkhalaj H.; Aghaabdollahmahootfooroosh A.
Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2016, , Pages 27-39
Abstract
Global warming and climate changes caused by human activities is one of the major environmental problems which has attracted the attention of many scientific and political circles of the world in the last two decades. The research with the subject of Factors associated with environmental behavior in ...
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Global warming and climate changes caused by human activities is one of the major environmental problems which has attracted the attention of many scientific and political circles of the world in the last two decades. The research with the subject of Factors associated with environmental behavior in the urban environment has been done. The statistical population of this research were 1,614,626 Karaj citizens with 15 to 75 year old that 384 individuals were selected by using of cluster random sampling by using of Cochran formula. The research is of survey type and questionnaire is the tool of data collecting. The questionnaire Validity is of formal type and its reliability is measured using Cronbach's alpha. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the variables of education, awareness of climate changes, general knowledge about climate changes, the perception of the risk of climate changes, attitudes towards climate changes and pro-environmental behavior. Also, there is a significant difference in pro-environmental behavior between women and men. Results of regression analysis show that, according to the adjusted coefficient of determination variables in the regression equation, 29% of the variance of the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables; and perception of the risk of climate changes, has the greatest overall impact on the pro-environmental behavior.
