A study of the primary students' environmental behaviors through the practice of the campus cleaning activities.

• Main Authors: Chang-HanYang, 楊昌翰
• Other Authors: 蘇宏仁
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23008050809474875017

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 人資處應用科學系教學碩士班 === 94 === A study of the primary students’ environmental behaviors through the practice of the campus cleaning activities. by Chang-Han Yang Abstract This research was mainly focused on the investigation of the primary students’ environmental behaviors through the practice of the campus cleaning activities. The purpose of this research was to figure out that, the students with different ethnographic variables (grades, genders, socioeconomic status, locations of school) toward the campus cleaning activities, how they will react with their action abilities, values , behavior intentions and the actual environmental behaviors, and then accordingly we can understand the relationship between the students’ environmental behaviors and the campus cleaning activities more furthermore. This research was based on the self-edited questionnaire of “Primary students’ behavior intentions towards the campus cleaning activities and their environmental behaviors” The selected samples include 1029 students from 12 primary schools in Changhua County, and the information were collected by questionnaire investigations and then analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The main results of the research are as the following: 1. The primary students hold a positive and enthusiastic attitude in the action abilities, values, behavior intentions towards the campus cleaning activities and in the environmental behaviors. 2. The action abilities towards the campus cleaning activities of the students with different ethnographic variables, differ as the result that girls are better than boys, in the city are better than in the rural, grade 2 are better than grade 6, high socioeconomic status are better than low socioeconomic status. 3. The values towards the campus cleaning activities of the students with different ethnographic variables, differ as a result that girls are better than boys, in the city are better than in the rural, grade 2 are better than grade 6, but no obvious significant refer to the socioeconomic status. 4. The behavior intentions towards the campus cleaning activities of the students with different backgrounds, differ as a result that girls are better than boys, in the city are better than in the rural, grade 2 are better than grade 4, and grade 6, high socioeconomic status are better than low socioeconomic status. 5. The environmental behaviors of the students with different ethnographic variables, differ as a result that girls are better than boys, in the city are better than in the rural, grade 2 are better than grade 4, and grade 4 are better than grade 6, and the high socioeconomic status are better than low socioeconomic status. 6. The behavior intentions towards the campus cleaning activities and the environmental behaviors of all the students seem to be significantly related. 7. The behavior intentions and the environmental behavior of the students can be effectively predicted based on their action abilities and values that they hold towards the campus cleaning activities.