| Summary: | 碩士 === 大仁科技大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 103 === In response to energy depletion and extreme climate change, sustainable use of clean renewable energy is the new direction of the country's future energy development. Elementary school teachers play a crucial role in effectively promoting environmental education, and establishing better understanding and behavior toward renewable energy. This research surveyed elementary school teachers at Taichung City, and studied the correlation between the perception of renewable energy and the intention to use it. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework, the factors that may influence teachers on their intentions to use renewable energy were analyzed, so that their intentions could be further improved.
A questionnaire was used on a stratified random sampling of 720 respondents and out of which, 698 valid responses were received, hitting a return rate of 96.9%. The findings are: in valid responses, only 48.4% has qualified perception on renewable energy, showing that teachers need to strengthen their understanding on renewable energy. However, there is positive performance on the levels of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, behavioral intention and behavior. Furthermore, teachers' perception of renewable energy was significantly influenced by factors, such as gender, age, educational background, and teaching experience. Secondly, in the context of different variables, teacher’s gender, age, teaching subjects, whether the school has wind power systems, solar water heaters and other equipments, participation in related studies, and experiences in environmental groups all significantly affect the intention to use renewable energy.
The study also showed that elementary school teachers’ perception of renewable energy and use of renewable energy attitude, perceived behavioral control, and behavior, is in a low degree of positive correlation between each other. Secondly, teachers in the use of renewable energy attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, is in a degree of positive correlation between the behavior intention. Moreover, according to TPB patterns, the effective three factors to predict the behavior intention are: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. Pathway analysis also showed that teachers' behavior intention toward the use of renewable energy, attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control has significant impact on the behavior intention with a predictive ability of 43%, subjective norm is the most important direct that influences teachers' behavior intention; the rest of factors in influential order are perceived behavioral control, and attitude. And teachers' behavior to use renewable energy was significantly influenced by behavior intention and perceived behavioral control with a predictive ability of 69%, behavior intention is the most important direct that influences teachers' behavior. Therefore, the use of renewable energy attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control will directly affect the behavior intention, and indirectly influence behavior.
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