On the relationship between environmental concerns and Low-Carbon behaviors of university students: Based on the investigation of B University

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10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.202How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Undergraduates; Environmental Concerns; Pro-environmental Behaviors; Relationship

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and measure the undergraduates’ pro-environmental behaviors and environmental attitudes and the relationships between them as well. The study shows three kinds of attitude in terms of environmental concerns and the sequence decreases; regarding pro-environmental behaviors, the students behave better in private-area than the public-area. Significant differences have been found in different gender, subjects, residence. The study has found the biospheric environmental concerns impact on the students’ behaviors positively and significantly, and egoistic environment concerns impact on the students negatively significantly in both of the public and private area, moreover, altruistic environment concerns only have a positive impacts on private area behaviors.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - S.y. Shen
AU  - X.w. Liu
AU  - Y.h. Ma
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - On the relationship between environmental concerns and Low-Carbon behaviors of university students: Based on the investigation of B University
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1094
EP  - 1099
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.202
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.202
ID  - Shen2015/09
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