The Determinants of Environmental Attitude and Behaviour among Students of Shahid Motahari Agricultural Vocational School of Shiraz

The aim of this study was to investigate the determinants of environmental attitude and behaviour of students at Shahid Motahari agricultural vocational school of Shiraz. For this purpose, the survey method was used and the data collection was done using a questionnaire which was validated by a group of experts, and the reliability as measured by Cronbach’s alpha were 0.61 to 0.83 for various sectors. The population consisted of all the students in Shahid Motahari agricultural vocational school in the 92-93 school year. Based on Krejcie and Morgan's table of sample size, 80 students were selected through simple random sampling methodology. Findings revealed that second and third-year students have positive attitude and behaviour and environmental factors were in high average and student's access to resources of information is at a low level. Moreover, a significant difference in environmental attitudes of students in the second and third year was not observed. Other results showed that urban students than rural students believe that the crisis is in the environment and students, who showed interest in environmental issues, had a better attitude towards the environment. The regression model indicated that the reference group attitude and access to resources of information, and being farmers' offspring were as important variables in predicting the environmental attitudes of students.