A Study of Role of Cultural Capital on Environmental Behavior (Case Study: Kurdistan Province)

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the level of cultural capital and environmental behavior and study of cultural capital impact on attitude and environmental behavior. The research method of this study is survey. The statistic sample has included 440 over -18 year- old people in urban regions of Kurdistan province. This sample has been selected based on multistage cluster sampling method. Questionnaire has been used to gather the required data. The survey findings show that 82 percent of the studied people have environmentally responsible behavior. Also about 71 percent of the surveyed people have high level of cultural capital. Nevertheless, level of attitude and environmental knowledge is standing at medium level. In addition, findings show that cultural capital has the most effect on environmental behavior and played the role of most anticipator variable for environmental behavior. Also, there is a relationship between environmental attitudes, environmental knowledge, marital status, and age groups with environmental behavior. Finally, probable reasons have been explained for the low level of environmental knowledge.