The Study of Relationship of Socio-economic Status and Sense of Social Responsibility with Environmental Behavior (the Case Study: Noorabad Mamasani's Residents)

Since Environmental problems are increasing day by day, environment protection needs pro-environmental behavior. This research was aimed to study the environmental behavior of Noorabad Mamasani's citizens and its relationship with socio-economic status and sense of social responsibility. The Statistics society was 15 years and older residents of Noorabad Mamasani; from which 400 people were determined based on Lin Sampling Table (1976) as sample size and were selected by classified-multi stage random sampling method. The structured questionnaire, which provided via the scale of environmental attitude (Salehi Omran & Aghamohamadi, 2008) and the scale of social responsibility sense(Haghighatian and Omidi, 2008) and environmental behavior (Novah & Forootan Kia, 2011), was used as the research tool. The findings showed that the dependent variable (environmental behavior) has a significant and meaningful relationship with the variables of social responsibility and environmental attitude (99%) and socioeconomic status (95%). The results showed that attitudes and beliefs of individuals, which are the indictor of their socialization conditions, have an important role in the environmental behaviors.