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Evaluation of environmental attitudes: Analysis and results of a scale applied to university students
Author(s) -
FernándezManzanal Rosario,
RodríguezBarreiro Luis,
Carrasquer Jose
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
science education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.209
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1098-237X
pISSN - 0036-8326
DOI - 10.1002/sce.20218
Subject(s) - worry , environmental education , environmentalism , scale (ratio) , curriculum , psychology , work (physics) , mathematics education , likert scale , medical education , pedagogy , engineering , political science , geography , medicine , developmental psychology , mechanical engineering , anxiety , cartography , psychiatry , politics , law
Abstract Over the last few decades, environmental work has increased significantly. An important part of this has to do with attitudes. This research presents the design and validation of an environmental attitudes scale aimed at university students. Detailed information on development and validation of the scale is provided. Similarly, it presents the data derived from its application to a specimen group of students. The number of students involved in the whole research is 952. The results of the work show that a certain level of worry exists among the students regarding environmental problems, which is apparent in the need to increase environmental education and research. Some differences in environmental attitudes were also found between first year students and final year students and male and female students. These results lead us to insist on the importance of bringing about changes in the curriculum to increase environmentalism in the university. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci. Ed 91: 988–1009, 2007