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Environmental Attitudes of Young People in Turkey: Effects of School Type and Gender
Date
2005-01-01
Author
Teksöz, Gaye
ERTEPINAR, HAMİDE
Öztekin, Ceren
Sungur, Semra
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of school type (private and public) and gender on sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth grade students’ attitudes toward the environment. A total of 1497 students (n = 765 girls; n = 715 boys; and n = 17 gender not provided) attending public (n = 603) and private schools (n = 892) located in Ankara participated in the study. A 45‐item Likert‐type questionnaire consisting of four dimensions, namely, awareness of environmental problems, national environmental problems, solutions to the problems and awareness of individual responsibility, was used to measure students’ environmental attitudes. A two‐way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted to determine the effect of school type and gender on four dimensions of the environmental attitude questionnaire. Results showed that school type and gender had a significant effect on the collective dependent variables. Univariate ANOVAs indicated that mean scores on each dimension of the questionnaire were significantly different for students in public and private schools. Moreover, there was statistically significant mean difference between boys and girls with respect to scores on each dimension of the questionnaire. It is concluded as a result of the study that, although there are differences between categories of individuals, there is a widespread support for conservation of the environment among young people living in Ankara/Turkey.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42486
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Environmental Education Research
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1350462042000338379
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G. Teksöz, H. ERTEPINAR, C. Öztekin, and S. Sungur, “Environmental Attitudes of Young People in Turkey: Effects of School Type and Gender,”
Environmental Education Research
, vol. 11, pp. 215–233, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42486.