Effects of personal characteristics on environmental awareness; a questionnaire survey with university campus people in a developing country, Turkey

YILDIZ N. D., YILMAZ H., DEMİR M., TOY S.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ESSAYS, cilt.6, sa.2, ss.332-340, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 6 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Dergi Adı: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ESSAYS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, CAB Abstracts, Veterinary Science Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.332-340
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Environmental problems, environmental sensibility, survey study, Erzurum, Turkey, ATTITUDES
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study was carried out to identify the awareness and sensibility levels of campus people about environmental problems in Erzurum, the largest city of the East Anatolian Region, Turkey. A standard questionnaire form was completed by 350 volunteers and the data obtained were evaluated with Chi-square (x(2)) test. Environmental sensibility of the campus population was found to be 64.4% and the relationships between the sensibility and education levels, age, gender and income groups were investigated.