Elver Fazly Charlie (2017) A comparative study of interpretation, commitment and knoelwdge on students' pro-conservation behavior among secondary school students. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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Abstract
The deteriorating of our environmental conditions is caused by human behavior. The exploitation, destruction and exploration of our environment happened in order to fulfil! the needs of human being for comfortable lifestyles. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to identify and determine the direct and indirect relationship on students' interpretation, commitment, knowledge and behavior towards a lifelong attitude of pro-conservation behavior. A total of 1000 Form Four (age 16) respondents from the selected schools in urban area and rural area of Sabah, Malaysia were involved in this research and the data were collected by using the questionnaire as the research instrument. The research was conducted in the urban area and rural area in order to identify and determine the comparison between those areas in terms of environment and biodiversity conservation. The results via statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) showed that there was significance difference between the students' interpretation, commitment, knowledge and behavior based on demographic aspects (gender and educational stream) from the data collected in the rural and urban schools. It also showed that there was a positive significance correlation of students' interpretation (r= .451), students' commitment (r= .550) and students' nature conservation knowledge (r= .545) with pro-conservation behavior from the data collected in the rural schools of Sabah, Malaysia. From the data collected in the urban schools there was also a significance correlation of students' interpretation (r= .317), students' commitment (r= .488) and students' nature conservation knowledge (r= .455) with proconservation behavior. The research data also showed that there was significance influence of students' commitment on lifelong attitude of pro-conservation behavior with 30.1 percent variance changes from the data collected in the rural schools and 23.6 percent variance changes from the data collected in the urban schools. Path analysis via analysis of moment structure (AMOS) showed that there was significance direct and indirect relationship between students' interpretation, students' commitment and students' nature conservation knowledge with students' lifelong attitude of pro-conservation behavior from the data collected in the urban schools area and rural schools area with students' commitment variable acted as the main contributor to the students' lifelong attitude of pro-conservation behavior. The research findings showed that the students' interpretation, students' commitment, students' nature conservation knowledge and students' behavior were important and needed more attention from various parties in order to develop a lifelong attitude towards environment and biodiversity conservation. A lifelong attitude towards conservation will help to save our environment from being damaged and destroyed. Therefore, all of the environmental organizations need to design and organize a lot of conservation programmes in schools in order to promote conservation and builds positive impact on the students' behavior and attitudes towards conservation and the school administrators should play their roles by encouraging students' to participate in any environment programmes and support any programs held by the environmental organizations in the school.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Keyword: | Interpretation, Commitment, Knowledge, Pro-conservation behavior, Secondary school |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH1-278.5 Natural history (General) > QH1-(199.5) General Including nature conservation, geographical distribution |
| Department: | INSTITUTE > Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation |
| Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2023 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2023 10:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37681 |
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