Environmental Education
Zaeimeh Farjadinezhad; Mehrdad Goodarzvand Chegini; Hamidreza Rezaee Kelidbari; Morad Rezaee Dizgah
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model of positive organizational behavior with an emphasis on environmental consequences and also to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of positive organizational behavior with individual, organizational, and environmental consequences. ...
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model of positive organizational behavior with an emphasis on environmental consequences and also to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of positive organizational behavior with individual, organizational, and environmental consequences. This is an applied research with an integrated method (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population of the study included water and sewage industry experts and faculty members (20 people) who were sampled by snowball technique. For the quantitative part, 120 water and sewage workers in the country (2019-2020) were selected through the relative selection technique. Data collection tools include semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires. Qualitative data were analyzed by open, axial, and selective coding methods, and MAXQDA11, Smart PLS2, and SPSS23 were used to analyze the content of data and validation. In the quantitative part, content validity is used. The reliability and evaluation of measures were estimated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient method (89%). Findings from the present study showed that positive organizational behavior can be analyzed in five levels (individual, group, organizational, social, and environmental) and in the form of six categories (causal factors, characteristics, strategies, platforms, interventionists, consequences). Also, positive organizational behavior has a positive and significant relationship with environmental (0.711), behavioral (0.631), organizational outcomes (0.685). Therefore, it is necessary to model successful and leading organizations in the field of positive organizational behavior, training and holding workshops in the field of environment, creating a positive organizational atmosphere in order to achieve sustainable development of the environment.
Environmental Education
Fatemeh Takallou; Enayatollah Yazdanpanah
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Increasing urbanization has resulted in urban stress, and this issue has affected adults, including university students. This study investigates the relationship between the utilization of nearby green spaces by university students and their perceptions of stress and health. According to Ulrich's Stress ...
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Increasing urbanization has resulted in urban stress, and this issue has affected adults, including university students. This study investigates the relationship between the utilization of nearby green spaces by university students and their perceptions of stress and health. According to Ulrich's Stress Reduction Theory, this study designs an online survey method on students’ stress and analyzes their stress based on the results of the survey. The statistical population of the research included all 417 undergraduate students of English Language Translation at Alborz Payame Noor University in the academic year 2022-2023. Finally, 186 students who completed the online survey were selected for the study. The Perceived Stress Scale scores were combined and entered into IBM SPSS statistics 25. The results obtained from the regression analysis showed that the utilization of green spaces is negatively correlated with perceived stress levels, indicating that the frequency and time of visiting green areas have a predictive role in reducing the stress of students. This research adds to the body of knowledge regarding the function that urban green spaces predict promoting wellbeing and stress reduction. Thus, some suggestions for utilizing urban green spaces to improve university students' health might be proposed.
Environmental Education
Rezvan Mehni Raftar; Amir Naeimi
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The purpose of this descriptive research was to analyze the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the environmental behavior of rural women. The statistical population of the study was 1288 rural women in the Halil Rood watershed of Jiroft Township. Sample size determined 297 via ...
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The purpose of this descriptive research was to analyze the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the environmental behavior of rural women. The statistical population of the study was 1288 rural women in the Halil Rood watershed of Jiroft Township. Sample size determined 297 via using Krejcie and Morgan’s table. Sampling method was proportional stratified sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-designed questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire confirmed by a panel of experts. To determine the reliability of the questionnaire, a pilot test was conducted. Then Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated. The value was between 0.71 to 0.87 for research variables. Research results showed that the majority of rural women had a desirable situation about all components of the theory of planned behavior (Attitude, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavior Control, Intention, and Behavior). Research results also showed that the pro-environmental behavior of rural women was different according to their type of occupation and marital status. Also literacy and age had a significant relationship with pro-environmental behavior of rural women.
Environmental Education
Jahangir Karami; Fateme Dehghan; Kamran Yazdanbakhsh
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Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer ...
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Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer behavioral control using the theory of planned behavior, taking into account the role of environmental concerns and the intention to buy green products. For this purpose, the research data was collected from a sample of 867 people in the cities and villages of Kermanshah City, and the data was analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings revealed that attitudes (36%), mental norms (55%), and perceived behavioral control (50%) all had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior; additionally, environmental concerns (40%), and the intention to buy green products (58%), both had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior.
Environmental Education
Hossein Meiboudi; Babak Omidvar; A.A Enayati; Sahar Rashidi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , July 2013, , Pages 11-19
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In this research, it has been attempted through a field study; with a descriptive - analysis approach based on questionnaires; to demonstrate the environmental awareness of primary school children in green and traditional schools based on parents' education. The statistics population consists of ...
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In this research, it has been attempted through a field study; with a descriptive - analysis approach based on questionnaires; to demonstrate the environmental awareness of primary school children in green and traditional schools based on parents' education. The statistics population consists of primary school students of green and traditional schools in Tehran. Ratings to the answers for the awareness is on the number of correct answers to the questions. Data, after being coded with SPSS software and statistical appropriate tests, was analyzed. The results showed that the percentage rate of answers environmental awareness questions of green schools is greater than that of traditional schools. Considering the correlation between parents' education and environmental awareness, it was also observed that there is no significant relationship between parent's education and the awareness of environmental issues at schools.
Environmental Education
M Rezvani; M MoosaKazemi; M Arefian
Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2013, , Pages 13-23
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In this study, the effects of socio-demographic characteristics of the family on the students’ environmental ethics (children of the families) were assessed. The aim of the study was to gather and publish useful information about environmental factors especially education and culture as one of ...
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In this study, the effects of socio-demographic characteristics of the family on the students’ environmental ethics (children of the families) were assessed. The aim of the study was to gather and publish useful information about environmental factors especially education and culture as one of the most important issues of the population and country developments. In this descriptive study, all the high school students 1391-92 of Abhar, Zanjan were recruited. The population included 4467 persons, and based on the Morgan’s table, 360 persons were randomly selected using two-step cluster method. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire consisting two parts "socio-demographic characteristics of the family" and "environmental ethics of the students." Validity of the questionnaire was assessed by a group of consulting professors and specialists of environmental education, and the reliability was pretested among 30 students, and was finally approved with the Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.771. Analyzing the results of the questionnaires, none of the variables including: number of children, parental educations, parental occupations, real estate or rental houses, and being emigrants or citizens had a significant relationship with the level of environmental ethics of the students. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the environmental educations in new plans for the population organizing of the country, particularly concerning the importance of environmental ethics in providing a better future, in addition to the effort of improving the socio-demographic characteristics of the society.
