Open AccessInfluence of Adult Literacy Education on the Environmental Behaviours of Women
Author(s) -
Erhabor Igbinosa Norris,
E I Osayande
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2017.v13n20p241
Subject(s) - simple random sample , literacy , census , sample (material) , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , environmental education , sampling (signal processing) , medical education , social psychology , environmental health , socioeconomics , pedagogy , sociology , medicine , engineering , population , chemistry , power (physics) , physics , filter (signal processing) , chromatography , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering
The study assessed the influence of adult literacy education on the environmental attitudes and behaviours of women in Edo State. A sample size of 253 respondents were selected using both census sampling to select the 15 adult literacy centers in the state and simple random sampling by balloting to choose the sample for the study. The instrument for the study had a reliability of 0.75 for the attitude subscale and 0.83 for the behaviours subscale. It was observed from the study that the majority of the respondents (57.3%) had a positive attitude towards the environment and their response revealed that they rarely partake in most pro-environmental behaviours. There was a weak positive relationship observed between the respondents’ environmental attitude and their environmental behaviour. Hence the researchers recommended that more emphasis should be placed on implementing adult environmental education in each of the adult literacy centers in Edo State.