University Students’ Interests towards Environmental Issues and Their Origins
Abstract
This study handled out the state university
students’ degree of concerns about the protection of the environment, the
sources of concerns and factors that affect their concerns such as the people,
courses and specially instructors in the universities. The scale which measures
the sources of concerns about environment was used in this study. The
stimulated factors which has a role in construction of concerns about
environment were indicated and the roles which affect the concerns were
investigated in this study. The factors which were ordered in sequence the
third were identified as “Inconvenience of students about the nature and
environment pollution”, “deformation of the world in terms of environmental
problems” and “responsibility of students about environment”. Concrete
suggestions about increasing the concern level of students about environment
protection and their transfer process to schools and courses were developed and
presented in terms of findings.
Keywords
Interest,environment protection,concerns and stimulated factors about environment
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