Investigating the Relationship Between National Identity and Environmental Behavior among Humanities Students in Shiraz University

Environmental degradation threatens human life. This paper uses survey method to investigate the environmental behavior of students of humanities in Shiraz University (in the academic year 2019-2019) and its relationship with national identity and its dimensions (territorial, political, historical and cultural). A total of 400 students were selected as the sample size and cluster sampling was used. Environmental behavior questionnaire used by Mirfardi et al. (2017) and the questionnaires of national Identity that used by Mirfardi and Valinezhad (2018) were used. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, construct and face validity and to evaluate its reliability, Cronbach's alpha method was used. Data were analyzed by SPSS software. The results showed that the environmental behavior variable had a direct and significant relationship with the variables of national identity and the political dimension of national identity at the level of 95% and with the historical dimension of national identity at the level of 99%. Also, environmental behavior had a significant difference at 99% level according to the educational level. Independent variables explained 10% of the dependent variable changes. The result is that national identity, and especially its historical dimension, plays an important role in responsible environmental behavior