The Study of Relationship of Social Activity with Environmental Behavior(the Case Study: Tehran Residents)

Vahida, F. Vahida; Jafarinia, GH.R.; Afrooz, S.

The Study of Relationship of Social Activity with Environmental Behavior(the Case Study: Tehran Residents)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Islamic Azad university of Dehaghan

² Islamic Azad university of Bushehr

Abstract

The intangible appetite of humans and the productivity of natural resources, and the sense of profligacy and addiction of capitalists and large producers, are a growing threat to natural resources.Therefore, the environmental issue is considered by many scholars.This article examines the relationship between social activity, relationship with nature and environmental behavior of citizens living in Tehran. The residents of Tehran were the statistical population , using a Lin table, 384 people were selected as sample size and selected by simple random sampling method.The survey instrument was a questionnaire and its analysis is conducted through Amos software. The findings of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between the social activity variable and the relationship with nature with the environmental behavior variable.Structural equation modeling results indicated that the index root mean is 0.07, the square to degrees of freedom is 2.95, Parsimonious fit indices is also 0.92. According to indicators of structural equation, the presented models had a good fit. As a result, social activity and relationshipswith nature play an important role in environmental behavior.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23223057.1396.5.4.9.4

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