Knowledge and Use of Family Resources to Reduce Global Warming of Women in Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

     The purposes of this study were to investigate: 1) knowledge on global warming and on use of family resources to reduce global warming; 2) behavior on use of family resources to reduce global warming; and 3) relationship between the behavior and knowledge of women in Nakhon Phanom province. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 400 women in Nakhon Phanom province. Data analysis comprised of percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The results showed that almost eighty percent of women had high level of knowledge on global warming, 91.8 percent had high level of knowledge on use of family resources to reduce global warming. Women frequently used water and home resources, and used food resources, electric resources, material resources, and appliance resources sometimes. The result of hypothesis testing showed significant relationship between the behavior on use of family resources to reduce global warming and the knowledge on global warming at the .01 level.