期刊名称:International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN:2222-6990
出版年度:2011
卷号:1
期号:3
出版社:Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要:This paper examined secondary students' environmental attitudes in Bangladesh by employinga standardized environmental attitude scale. The scale consisted of 15 questions rated on aLikert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree)to5 (strongly agree). 400 secondarystudents, with equal number of boys and girls from both the urban and rural schoolsparticipated in this study. The study found that overall students from both the urban and ruralareas expressed favourable environmental attitudes with girls having a significantly higher levelof favourable environmental attitudes than boys; in particular, rural girls had the highest levelof environmental attitudes comparing among others. This paper discussed the scope for furtherresearch to identify the gap and relationship between environmental attitudes andenvironmental behaviours of Bangladeshi adolescents