Omani students' views about global warming: beliefs about actions and willingness to act

Title
Omani students' views about global warming: beliefs about actions and willingness to act
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Ambusaidi, Abdullah
Boyes, Edward
Stanisstreet, Martin
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/10382046.2012.639154
UNE publication id
une:10403
Abstract
A 44-item questionnaire was designed to determine students' views about how useful various specific actions might be in helping to reduce global warming, their willingness to undertake these various actions and the extent to which these two might be related. The instrument was administered to students in Grades 6 to 12 (N = 1532) from 12 schools in the Sultanate of Oman. The findings indicated that the majority of Omani students believe that global warming is happening now, and are concerned about it. Students are willing to undertake some actions, such as switching off unused domestic appliances, more than others, such as using public transport, despite the fact that they believe the latter would reduce global warming. Novel indices were constructed to explore the relationship between belief and willingness to act for specific actions. The findings suggest that the link between belief and willingness to act is stronger for some actions, such as increasing recycling, than others, such as using smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. This approach allows us to identify pro-environmental actions that may, in terms of effecting behaviour change, be useful to include in teaching schemes.
Link
Citation
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 21(1), p. 21-39
ISSN
1747-7611
1038-2046
Start page
21
End page
39

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