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The effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior: A study of middle and high school students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior: A study of middle and high school students./
Author:	Brademan, Lou Ellen Parker.
Description:	145 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: B, page: 2105.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05B.
Subject:	Environmental Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3092051

The effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior: A study of middle and high school students.
Brademan, Lou Ellen Parker.

The effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior: A study of middle and high school students. - 145 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: B, page: 2105.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2003.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, affect, and behavior of school-aged children by administering pre- and posttest surveys. The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale (Dunlap & Van Liere, 1978, 1984) was used to measure ecological orientation and the Adults' Attitudes Towards The Environment Scale (AATES) (Musser & Malkus, 1994) was a tripartite measurement of attitudes. The AATES belief, affect and behavior subscales were also analyzed separately. Another purpose of this research study was to test the relationships between gender, experimental/control group, ecological orientation, beliefs, attitude (affect), and behavior within a proposed model of environmental concern. By testing a model of environmental concern, the present study established significant relationships between students' affect on behavior; beliefs and ecological orientation on affect; and ecological orientation on beliefs. The important role of teachers as a source of environmental information and significant influence on students' attitudes about the environment and other species was confirmed. After spending one school year with the ecology club sponsor as their science teacher, control group females experienced a significant increase in every measure: overall attitude (AATES), ecological orientation (NEP), beliefs, affect, and behavior. Females and males of the experimental group demonstrated stronger proenvironmental beliefs on the pretest confirming the association between beliefs and participation in an ecology related activity. Stronger beliefs among the experimental group on the posttest indicated that participation in an ecology club or camp resulted in positive increases in proenvironmental beliefs, while experimental group males demonstrated a significant increase in overall attitude (AATES), affect, and behavior compared to experimental females. The potential impact teachers can have on students' beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors was made evident by the results of this study; therefore, the role educators play in producing a proenvironmentai citizenry cannot be overstated. Findings support the rationale for providing more opportunities for student participation in ecology related activities since increases in proenvironmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors were associated with participation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

676987
Environmental Sciences.

The effect of gender and ecology club or environmental camp participation on ecological orientation, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior: A study of middle and high school students.
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