Authors: Neslihan Kulözü
Publish Date: 2016/04/27
Volume: 23, Issue: 12, Pages: 12482-12490
Abstract
This study explores the perception and knowledge of environmental problems among students of Atatürk University Turkey as a developing country by comparing their perceptions with known facts about environmental problems at local national and global levels In addition the correlation between the student groups and their knowledge levels and the differences between the student groups according to their knowledge levels when taking age and gender into account are explored To this end the research designed as a case study and pursued an exploratory approach revealed that major perceived environmental problems show differences at local national and global levels that consensus on both major perceived problems and knowledge decreases from a local to global level that a weak correlation exists between the age r 205 = −010 002 −071 and gender groups r 205 = −099 −125 065 in terms of their knowledge at local national and global level respectively and that the contribution of knowledge at a national level can help to explain differences among the age groups −304 102 −148 at national level and the gender groups 131 −205 at national and global levels
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