Environmental Concern, Attitude and Intention in Understanding Student’s Anti-Littering Behavior Using Structural Equation Modeling

Sheena Bidin,Hayati Ibrahim,Manohar Mariapan,Evelyn Lim Ai Lin

doi:10.3390/su13084301

Abstract

Concerns about the environment began to rise as various issues such as littering increased. Littering is one of the problems involving the environment, and higher education campuses are also actively practising anti-littering to show their efforts. The aim of this study is to test the relationship between environmental concern, attitude and intention on anti-littering using Theory of Planned Behavior Extended Model. A total of 303 students of the Polytechnic Malaysia campus were respondents in this study and the data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling using SPSS Amos 24.0 Statistical Packages. Findings show that there is a direct and indirect effect between environmental concern and student’s anti-littering intention. The indirect result shows that attitude towards anti-littering behavior partially mediates the relationship between environmental concern and anti-littering intention. The implications of the research findings and suggestions for the future study are also included in the study.

Highlights

Littering is a negative activity that has brought various adverse effects on the environment
The majority of respondents in this study are from the information technology (IT) field students (40.7%), followed by students majoring in business (37.7%), engineering (15.4%) and tourism and hospitality (6.2%)
The main purpose is to test the strength of attitude and its function in determining the relationship between environmental concern and intention

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Introduction

Littering is a negative activity that has brought various adverse effects on the environment. Sugar wrappers; plastics and paper waste; food and beverage packaging containers are often left everywhere and not thrown in the bin properly around the campus area. These littering activities can be seen either inside or outside the lecture room and either after break time or before the end of lecture time. Emitting unpleasant odor was the bad air from the scattered rubbish is an attraction for wild animals like rats, dogs, monkeys and flies that are looking for food.

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