Open AccessGender Differences and Environmental Friendliness among Secondary School Students in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria
Author(s) -
James Odia,
Agnes Anuoluwapo Odia
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indonesian journal of contemporary management research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2722-9092
pISSN - 2655-3112
DOI - 10.33455/ijcmr.v1i1.82
Subject(s) - benin city , curriculum , population , psychology , test (biology) , multistage sampling , significant difference , mathematics education , medical education , socioeconomics , pedagogy , sociology , demography , medicine , family medicine , ecology , pathology , biology , teaching hospital
The paper investigated gender difference and practice of environmental friendliness (PEF) among senior secondary school (SSS) students in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria. The sampling population comprised 480 SSS1 students from twenty-four (24) public and private schools in Benin Metropolis. The data was analyzed using percentage, independent t-test and the Ordinary Least Square (OLS). Besides the male students were found to engage in more environmental unfriendly practices than the female students. The findings from the independent t-test showed significant gender differences in four PEFs with regard to: use of waste bins, urinating around school buildings, writing and pasting posters on the walls and bush burning. The OLS results showed that gender, school administration environmental knowledge and attitude had significantly negative impact on PEF Moreover, whereas the interaction of gender on environmental knowledge has significant and positive impact on PEF, the interaction of gender with environmental attitude has significantly negative association on PEF. Therefore, the paper has implication in the redesign of the school curriculum to address students’ environment and sustainability issues as well as the introduction of affective based teaching methods to help correct the negative students’ attitude/behaviour.