Spss report

environsal troubles such as climate change, ozone layer depletion, planetary warming, and so on atomic number 18 now growing at an alarming rate. Many of this worry are believed to be increasing due to human carry ons as a result of irresponsible surroundingsal behaviors, which is superiorly influenced by the positionings state deliver The research come was carried out to find out the environsal attitude of respondents and their opinion on environmental resolutions facing Australia and the macrocosm at large.The plan of this study is to form how some of the demographic characteristics affect environmental attitudes of the students surveyed. Thus, the differences amid the environmental attitudes of the students will be explained. This study aims to find the answers to these questions Are at that place any differences between the environmental attitudes of students surveyed and the degree they are enrolled in? Is at that place a difference in environmental attitude s to their sexual activity? Is in that respect a difference in environmental attitudes to their socio- scotch status?Data was collected subprogram an environmental attitude questionnaire which was administered to students in ENVENOMS and TIOGA of Flinders University, Forty two respondents ere received. In consecrate to get a balance view from respondents the questionnaire has a section that asked questions on the demography of respondents which was aimed at collecting data such has age, gender, degree studied, ALGA, menage and part of going place. Figure 1 at a lower place shows that of 100% that responded to the survey 54. 8% were female, 42. 9% were male trance the remaining 2. 4% were missing.T able-bodiedt shows that 41 respondent proved their age with a mean value of 24. 12, while the least and maximum age of respondent is 17 old age and 58 years old respectively. All respondents where from various academic background I. E. 33. 3% enrolled in B. EVEN. MGM, 26. 2% en rolled BAA, 7. 1 enrolled in B. DE, 11. 9% enrolled BAGS, 2. 4% enrolled in B. ARCH, 4. 8%enrolled B. SC and 4. 8% enrolled in B. INTO. STUDIES. This varieties of educational background gives the survey a much outward and broad view of environmental attitude from mint with contrary orientation.The respondents that were surveyed come from 13 different Local Government Areas of southeastern Australia with 10 been the highest number of respondents from Inappropriate Local Government Area and Alexandrine, Norway, defrayal & SST Peters, Tea tree gully and Unless having 1 respondent each this is shown in turn off 2 under. Majority of the respondents 64. 3% lived in a house gain as part of a family and 14% lived as a jibe while the remaining percent of respondents were shared relatively among living as chemical group, by themselves and in a non-private home. Figure 2 below shows that 78. % of the respondents dwell in a separate house, 7. 1 in a flat. The questionnaire was know ing to profile specific environmental attitudes of students which foc utilize more on workaday activities of the respondents. The collective information of the demography shown above shows the characteristics of the respondents which derriere be used to show the attitudes of the students to environmental discharges based on the questions asked in the questionnaire. The first serial of question were asked to ascertain the type of environmental friendly activities the students are personally involved in.Table 3 below shows that 4. 8% of the respondents are members of Land care, 1 1. 9% are members of Greenback and 14. 3% are members of a University group while 19. 0% are members of other environmental groups, 61. % of the respondents refuse undue packaging, 73. 8% shop with their own bag, 83. 3% minimize paper use, 16. 7% attend rallies and demonstrations and 4. 8% writes letters to politicians. The array of information gotten from this section shows that a large percentage of t he students are environmentally conscious and seeking to amend the quality of the environment..The second series of question were asked to show the type of environmental features present in the students domicile. The table below show that 52. 4% of the students has compost bin or heap, 9. 5% has worm farm, 31. % has a rain urine tank car plumbed into their dwelling while 52. 4 has a rain water system not plumbed into their dwelling, 9. 5% has their hot water powered by solar, 7. 1% has their electricity powered by solar, 83. 3% has compact florescent bulbs, 28. 6% dwelling has passive design while 31% has some other type of environmentally friendly features not included in the questionnaire.Table 4 below shows the average train of the respondents agreement to the questions asked in section 3 which is aimed to determine get their opinion on different environmental issues. The average level of students that agreed that the welling they live is environmentally sustainable in terms of the power and water they use is 3. 02, The average agreement level of students that agreed that put down market mechanism, such has polluters pay, are the best ways of dealing with environmental paradoxs sis. 76 and 2. 7 is the average level of those that agreed that environmental egis is more important than economic growth. Those that agreed that Australian environment is in a better state now than 10 years ago has the highest level of average in this survey while those that agreed to be strongly omitted to minimizing environmental shock in their day to day activities has the net level of average. The level of average of those that agreed that Australias environmental issues are designer by the actions of miners and farmers, An average of 3. 6 of the student also agreed that in the long term Australia would be acting more responsibly to the environment if it develops its nuclear resources in order to reduce the emission of CO into the environment from burning fossil fuel s. The students average level of agreement that the world faces the pay of major ecosystems within the next 20 years is 2. 4 while those that agreed with the view that scientific research and the careful actions of government and communities can repair the damage done to the environment is 2. 4. Question 4 of the questionnaire asked the students to indicate one most serious environmental issue they think is confronting the world today and 59. 5% wrote that Global warming is the most environmental issue confronting the world today while 2. 4% wrote that loss of biodiversity is the most problem facing the world as shown in figure 3 below. In question 5 the scale of the question in question 4 was changed to Australia and it as stigmatize as shown in figure 5 below that majority 73. % wrote that water issue is the most serious environmental issue confronting Australia while loss of biodiversity and global warming are the least of the environmental issues confronting Australia. It can be deduce from the responses gotten from question 4 and 5 that global warming is the most serious environmental issue confronting the world further that Water issue is the most environmental issue confronting Australia which shows and indicate that different environmental issues is confronting different areas of the world.Question 6, 7 & 8 are questions based on the mode of fascinateation that each individual uses to ascertain the level of impact their mode of expatriationation is causing the environment. Table 6 below shows the percentage of respondents that uses either the Adelaide public transport or use oscillation as means of transport and it is noticed that 38. 1% of the students use Adelaide public transport most days while 16. 7% exactly ever or never used the Adelaide transport and in contrast it is noticed that bonnie 4. % of the students used rack most days compared to the 38. 1% that uses the Adelaide public transport while 47. % of the student hardly ever or ne ver use the bicycle. It is noticed in the response of the students to question 6 and 7 that there seems to exist a relationship between the two mode of transport I. E. The percentage of usage of Adelaide transport reduces from most day (38. 1 to hardly ever or never (16. 7) use the percentage usage of bicycle increases from most days (4. 8%) to hardly ever (47. 6%) as shown in figure 6 below.Table 6 below shows the outcome of examine the gender of respondents with their environmental attitudes based on whether they agree strongly to been perpetrate to missing environmental impact and minimizing the use of paper. It is spy that there is a significant difference in the percentage of female 91. 3% compared to 72. 2% of male that said yes to minimizing the use of paper and these is further strengthen by the result shown with 30. 4% of female strongly agreeing to been committed to minimizing environmental impact while no male strongly agreed to the statement, Though majority of the ma le(88. %) agreed to been committed while compared to the 56. 5% of female that agreed. This result implies that females are ore inclined to be committed to minimizing their impact on the environment by participating more in minimizing their paper use When the degree enrolled in by the respondents was compared as shown in table 7 below it was observed that students enrolled in bachelor of environmental management and bachelor of Art are more inclined to going to the shop with their own containers than the remaining students enrolled in other courses.With students enrolled in bachelor of environmental management having the highest percentage that go to shopping with their own bags and container it shows that environmental attitudes of student enrolled in environmental topics yield a higher tendency of participating and engaging in more environmentally friendly activities Table 8 and 9 below which compared the socio economic status of students surveyed with their environmental attitud e based on their response to different question clearly shows that students with socio economic status above 1000 impart a higher percentage of solar electricity and rainwater tank plumbed to their dwelling than their counterpart with socio economic status below 1000. This implies that students room high socio economic status are more inclined to be able to afford environmentally friendly feature in their dwelling. Its is also notice from this study when the age of the respondents was compared to the number of students that use the Adelaide public transport and bicycle has their mode of transport. It is noticed that respondents aged 18 and 19 are some(prenominal) the highest(18. % each) user of Adelaide public transport, while respondents within the range of 36 to 57 years did not make use of Adelaide public transport at all. This may be as a result of older people having owned their personal vehicle. Conclusion This study was aimed at determining the environmental attitude and op inion of students and the effects of their degree of study, age, socio economic status and gender and on these environmental attitudes. In this study it has been observed that the degree a student is enrolled in has a significant effect on their environmental attitudes when the students take more environmental courses, because the participation in their environmental attitudes increases.As a result of the study, it could be concluded that the students surveyed generally had positive attitudes toward the environment unheeding of the demographic characteristics used. Findings in this studies can be significant, because to face the challenges of environmental problem it is important to know the attitudes of students who are the potential leaders and policy makers of the future, so as to acquaint these younger generation with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude relating to the environment regardless of their demography characteristic, because this students will affect and be a ffected by the environmental policies and decisions undertaken today.