Survey and Analysis of Water Environment Concepts of University Students
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Wang, Yiyu
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This study was conducted to explore the water environmental cognition, attitude and satisfaction of university students. A reliable and validated assessment was performed via the collection, sorting out and analysis of the results from extended questionnaires to 2266 students, sampled out of seventeen colleges and universities in Taiwan. The obtained data were analyzed via t-test, one-way ANOVA, MANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple regression methods.
The main findings from the results of statistical analysis of data collected from the survey demonstrate that：
（1）On the whole, university students in Taiwan do not have good cognitive understanding of environmental knowledge. The most significant effect was the level of education. The second important effect was the selection of study of environmental courses. The least effect was the major department study.
（2） The university students of male, older, high level of education and selection of study of environmental courses had better performance in water environment knowledge.
（3） In six dimensions of water environment knowledge, they can be prioritized as the following order: water science, water ecology, important environmental issues, sustainable environmental development, water resources and water pollution.
（4）Most of university students have positive over all environmental attitude. Sustainable environmental development, environmental economics and water pollution tended to have more positive environmental attitude; while government environmental policy and environmental behavior had more negative environmental attitude.
（5）The environmental satisfaction degrees of most university students were moderate. For the four parts of government environmental policy, the results indicated that garbage classification of environmental protection agency was mostly satisfied, while ecological engineering methods of water conservancy agency had least satisfaction. As for the parts of water environment, the environment of lake and reservoir gained higher satisfaction, while the satisfaction on environment of groundwater was lowest.
（6）The higher level of education of university students had the lower satisfaction.
（7）That is a significant correlation among water environmental knowledge, attitude and satisfaction of university students. Water environmental knowledge and attitude had positive correlation, while water environmental knowledge and satisfaction indicated negative correlation.
It is suggested that environmental education may be subscribed as a requirement of study in university in order to enhance the environmental concept of university students.
Subjects
水環境教育
水環境知識
環境態度
環境滿意度
水環境教材
water environmental education
water environmental knowledge
environmental attitude
environmental satisfied
water environmental teaching materials
SDGs
Type
thesis
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