Revealing Students’ Environment Care Attitudes Viewed by Different Gender and Departments

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10.2991/978-2-38476-056-5_15How to use a DOI?

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Gender; department; environmental care attitude

Abstract

An attitude of caring for the environment is needed to preserve the environment. This study aims to reveal students’ environmental care attitudes of different genders and departments. This research is descriptive involving 594 students from 52 schools in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. The instrument uses an environmental care attitude questionnaire using a Likert scale of 1 to 4. This study measures five aspects of caring for the environment, aspects A1 = knowing the importance of the potential of the surrounding environment, A2 = maintaining cleanliness and beauty of the environment, A3 = realizing the benefits of protecting the environment, A4 = paying attention to environmental balance, and A5 = environmental improvement efforts. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and continued with one-way ANOVA analysis. The results showed that; (1) of the five aspects of environmental care, female students have a better environmental care attitude than boys (p < .05), (2) students in the science department have a better environmental care attitude than male students in five aspects of environmental care were observed (p < .05), and (3) female students in the science department had the highest mean value for environmental care, followed by male students in the science department, female students in the social department, and lastly male students in the social department.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Siti Nurhidayati
AU  - Endang Susantini
AU  - Safnowandi
AU  - Fida Rachmadiarti
AU  - Khaeruman
AU  - Akhmad Sukri
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/26
TI  - Revealing Students’ Environment Care Attitudes Viewed by Different Gender and Departments
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education and Technology (ICETECH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 140
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-056-5_15
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-056-5_15
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