Preservice Teachers’ Intention to Recycle and Recycling Behavior: The Role of Recycling Opportunities

Year 2019, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 33 - 45, 08.12.2018

Savaş Pamuk Deniz Kahrıman-pamuk

Abstract

The
purpose of the study is to grasp preservice teachers’ recycling intention via
Ajzen’s TPB model and to examine the TPB components regarding recycling
opportunities of the residence where they lived in childhood, the city where
they live at the moment and the university campus. Data were gathered via the scale
named TPB
survey that covers main TPB
components in terms of attitude, subjective norm, personal behavioral control
(PBC), intention to recycle, and recycling behavior. From a faculty of education
in a university, 834 preservice teachers from different departments participated
to study. The results indicated that preservice teachers’ attitude, subjective
norm, and PBC were found as significant predictors of recycling intentions. Furthermore,
preservice teachers’ recycling intentions and behavior were differentiated
based on the recycling opportunities in their childhood residence, campus, and
city.

Keywords

Theory of Planned Behavior, recycling intention, recycling behavior

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