Perception and Adjustment of Environmental Pollution—A Case Study of Houjing , Kaohsiung

• Main Authors: Ming-hsien Yu, 余明憲
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12133025807710999700

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 文化與自然資源學系碩士班 === 99 === Trying to explore how the oil refinery affected the residents in environmental perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior from the aspect of environmental perception, this study aimed to investigate the Houjing residents’ current environmental perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior and discuss the differences, caused by these three variables, of the residents with different backgrounds and living environment characteristics. The method adopted in this study is Questionnaire Survey, and the “Questionnaire of the Houjing residents’ perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior toward environmental pollutions” was designed by the researcher to use as a tool. The population of this study was the residents living in the Houjing area of Kaohsiung, and Stratified Random Sampling was used. There were 531 questionnaires in total with 400 effective questionnaires collected. All data was analyzed with statistical techniques, such as descriptive statistics, independent t test, one-way ANOVA, and Person product-moment correlation, etc. The conclusions drawn from this study are as follows： 1. The Houjing residents were moderate in environmental perception, very positive in environmental attitude, and positive in taking adjustment behavior. 2. The Houjing residents thought that the most unbearable type of environmental pollutions was “air pollution”, followed by “gas explosion threat”. 3. The major source of pollution information of the Houjing residents was “personal observation and experience”, followed by “television reports”. 4. The Houjing residents thought that the major pollution resulted from the oil refinery was “air pollution”, followed by “groundwater pollution”. 5. The environmental perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior of Houjing residents had significant differences in “gender”, “age”, “education”, “profession”, “residence time”, “whether his home had been polluted”, “whether he had participated in civic activities”, and “whether he had thought of moving.” 6. The environmental perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior of Houjing residents had no significant differences in “marriage”, “whether he has children”,“house ownership” , and “distance between home and the oil refinery.” 7. Environmental perception and attitude of Houjing residents varied greatly in “residence area”; but adjustment behavior had no significant differences in the variable. 8. The environmental perception, and adjustment behavior of Houjing residents had significant differences in “income”, “whether he had relatives working in the oil refinery”, “the preference for particular political party”; but the environmental attitude of Houjing residents had no significant differences in these variables. 9. The environmental perception, attitude, and adjustment behavior of Houjing residents were highly related.