The Effects of Short Synchronous Online Training onthe Environmental Attitude of Thai Undergraduate Students
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https://doi.org/10.14456/ncrj.2025.4Keywords:
Environmental Attitude, Undergraduate Students, Synchronous Online Training, Simple Mediation AnalysisAbstract
This study involved 39 voluntary participants who took part in a short online training program on environmental awareness, incorporating photograph sharing and online discussions. The primary objective was to examine the impact of the synchronous online training on participants’ environmental attitudes. To assess this effect, the 24-item Environmental Attitude Inventory (EAI) by Milfont & Duckitt (2010) was adapted, with an additional 12 items based on the original 12 scale-inventory included in the post-intervention survey to measure the effect of the short synchronous online training on the students’ environmental attitude. Given the non-normal distribution, the data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and simple mediationanalysis with Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed a statistically significant increase inenvironmental attitude scores from pre-intervention to post-intervention.Moreover, PLS-SEM simple mediation analysis indicated that the short synchronousonline training fully mediated the relationship between pre-intervention and post-intervention EAI scores. These findings suggest that synchronous online training, integrating photograph sharing and online discussions, can have a significant positive effect on undergraduate students’ environmental attitudes.
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