Abstract
This research aimed to comparing the behavior of high school students concerning sustainable waste management behavior between vocational and public school students. Management behaviors include waste prevention, reuse, recycling, green purchasing and waste disposal. The analysis uses a multivariate of covariance (MANCOVA) that the data collected by questionnaire involving 347 high school students in Tulungagung Regency. The findings presented here based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), from both types of schools it shows that threat appraisal has a significantly more influence on student’s participation in Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors (SWMBs) than Coping appraisal in the level of significance 5%. Furthermore, it is also revealed that there are significant differentiation (p<0,05) SWMBs between the students of SMK 3 Boyolangu and SMA 1 Tulungagung. In order for students to understand the value of action and know which actions will mitigate waste effects, awareness must be provided to different forms of sustainable action strategies and the severity of waste disposal issues.
Highlights
Based on the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and implementation of Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors (SWMBs), this study intends to investigate Vocationally and Public Highschool students’ engagement in Tulungagung regarding sustainable waste management behaviors, consist of waste avoidance, green purchasing, waste disposal, reuse, and recycling behavior
Many residents are littering in various locations, rivers that transform into a sea of waste, including rivers that cross the Kalidawir sub-district, Bandung, Besuki, Boyolangu, but even residents throw trash into the Indonesian state forest company (Perhutani) area, such as the Telaga Buret area (Basso & Fatah, 2017; Yohanes & Prastika, 2019)
Even though some scholars have already explored the application of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to investigate pro-environmental behaviors (Almarshad, 2017; Janmaimool, 2017), this study focuses on Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors (SWMBs) in Tulungagung Regency, which involves several types of waste management behaviors, these behaviors different levels and types of effort based on characteristics of student’s behaviors
Summary
Based on the PMT and implementation of SWMB, this study intends to investigate Vocationally and Public Highschool students’ engagement in Tulungagung regarding sustainable waste management behaviors, consist of waste avoidance, green purchasing, waste disposal, reuse, and recycling behavior. From all of the previous research, this study proposed hypotheses: (2) Students of vocational highschool have higher Engagement in Waste Disposal, Green Purchasing, Waste Avoidance Behaviors, recycle and reuse than the public highschool.
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