Investigation of Cognitive and Affective Attitude of Students toward Environment and Their Environmental Behavioural Intention to Join Environmental Movement and Energy Conservation

Abstract

The study wanted to investigate the cognitive and affective attitude of students toward the environment and its relationship with their environmental behavior, intention to join the environmental movement, and Conserve energy. In order to strengthen the study, theories related to human attitude and human behavior, the influence of human attitude toward behavior, and attitude toward environment were discussed. Related studies were also reviewed to strengthen the theories. The study used descriptive correlational study. The population of the study was all senior High School students of Divine Word College of Vigan. The data were gathered through validated questionnaires. In order to analyze the data, statistical tools were used such as weighted mean was used to determine the level of cognitive and affective attitude toward the environment and environmental behavior, while the Pearson r was used to determine the correlation between cognitive and affective attitude toward the environment and environmental behavior. The study found that students have very high cognitive and affective attitudes toward the environment particularly on the anthropocentric and eco-centric view of the environment. However, though the students have very high anthropocentric and eco-centric cognitive and affective attitudes as a whole the attitude does not correlate to the environmental behavior but there is a correlation between positive eco-centric cognitive attitude toward the environment and personal conservation behavior.