Factors Related to Environmentally Friendly Behavior of Public University Students in Bangkok Metropolis
Keywords:
Environment, Environmental Friendliness, Environmentally Friendly BehaviorAbstract
This research was intended to investigate the factors related to environmentally friendly behavior of public university students in Bangkok. The sample were 400 Public University students in Bangkok from the multistage random sampling method. A Environ mentally Friendly Behavior questionnaire with a reliability value of .831 was used. Percentage, mean and Chi-Square Test were used as statistical tool. The results were as follows: 54.2 % of the students were female, 61.7% were under 20 years of age. They studied in the social sciences and scientific subjects had the same proportion. The students’ average income was 9,963 baht. 47.2 % of students had 4 family members, 83.5 % acquired the information of environmental friendliness from the internet, 54.3 % whose parents was a person who contributed them interested in environmental friendliness. 65.5 % of the students had a good level of knowledge on environmental friendliness, and 56.2 % had a moderate level of environmentally friendly behaviors.
The results of this study of factors related to environmentally friendly behavior revealed that personal factors, perception of information, reference persons and knowledge about being environmentally friendly had no relationship with overall environmentally friendly behaviors. There are some factors that correlate with the environmentally friendly behavior in the sub-section: 1) the mother's occupation of the students was related to the environmentally friendly behavior in terms of resource recycling, material modifications to other applications. 2) the students’ income was related to the behavior of being environmentally friendly in terms of reducing resources for saving electricity. 3) The perception of environmental information from the academic conference was related to environmentally friendly behavior in reducing the use of resources for saving electricity.
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