大專學生環境態度之研究

Environmental Literacy of University Students

王瑋龍(Wei-Lung Wang) ； 洪婷靖(Ting-Chin Horng) ； 趙麗玲(Li-Ling Chao) ； 溫育德(Yu-Der Wen) ； 林宗岐(Chung-Chi Lin) ； 林素華(Su-Hua Lin)

《生物科學》 52卷2期 (2010/12) Pp. 1-14

https://doi.org/10.29981/CB.201012.0001

摘要

This research aimed to understand the environmental attitudes and the difference of environmental attitudes among university students within and between departments. The scale, environmental attitude of university student scale, was used in this study, and its reliability α was 0.94. The scale involved seven dimensions: balance of nature, limits to growth, human over nature, ethics, beliefs, awareness, and behavior intentions. There were 135 biology major students and 170 non-biology major students as the participants of this research. We received 289 effective responses as the sample pool of this research. The results showed that university students' environmental attitude is positive, and the ”beliefs” dimension had the highest mean (M=4.5). There were significant difference between biology major students and non-biology major students in ”human over nature” and ”awareness” dimensions (p＜.05). Regarding with ”beliefs”, ”awareness”, and ”behavior intentions” dimensions, seniors of Biology department performed significantly better than freshmen (p＜.05). In conclusion, we could find most university students had good environmental attitudes. Biology major students had more positive environmental attitudes than non-biology major students, and seniors of Biology department had more positive environmental attitudes than freshmen. We assumed that ecological courses and environment-related courses enhanced the environmental attitudes of students. The results can be referred to the university course schedule.

關鍵字

環境態度 ； 環境倫理

並列摘要

This research aimed to understand the environmental attitudes and the difference of environmental attitudes among university students within and between departments. The scale, environmental attitude of university student scale, was used in this study, and its reliability α was 0.94. The scale involved seven dimensions: balance of nature, limits to growth, human over nature, ethics, beliefs, awareness, and behavior intentions. There were 135 biology major students and 170 non-biology major students as the participants of this research. We received 289 effective responses as the sample pool of this research. The results showed that university students' environmental attitude is positive, and the ”beliefs” dimension had the highest mean (M=4.5). There were significant difference between biology major students and non-biology major students in ”human over nature” and ”awareness” dimensions (p＜.05). Regarding with ”beliefs”, ”awareness”, and ”behavior intentions” dimensions, seniors of Biology department performed significantly better than freshmen (p＜.05). In conclusion, we could find most university students had good environmental attitudes. Biology major students had more positive environmental attitudes than non-biology major students, and seniors of Biology department had more positive environmental attitudes than freshmen. We assumed that ecological courses and environment-related courses enhanced the environmental attitudes of students. The results can be referred to the university course schedule.

並列關鍵字

environmental attitudes ； environmental literacy