Assessment and Analysis of Environmental Literacy in Mohajeran

One of the most important issues of human life is environmental protection. On the other hand, One of the most influential and an important factor in maintaining the environmental is environmental literacy. Among the variables affecting people’s environmental literacy is their knowledge and attitude towards the environment. Therefore, awareness of individuals’ knowledge and attitude is essential for better implementation of plans and programs to improve the environmental circumstances. The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of environmental literacy in the city of Mohajeran.

This is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study. The required data were collected from the completion of 362 questionnaires has been collected by interviews in 2020 in the city of Mohajeran. A researcher made questionnaire was prepared consisted of three sections of individual information, knowledge and attitude questions. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data.

Ethical Considerations:

 Ethical aspects including preserving the authenticity of texts, honesty, trustworthiness, confidentiality of information and obtaining informed consent have been observed.

The mean and standard deviation of knowledge is 1.17±0.907 (responses in range -10 to 10) at a higher level of average and the mean and standard deviation of attitude is 0.485±1.25 (responses in range -6 to 10) at a relatively positive. There was a positive and significant correlation between awareness and attitude toward the environment. There was a significant difference between knowledge scores based on education and history of underlying disease. Awareness of people with higher education is more than people with low education. Awareness of people with a history of illness is more than people who have no history of illness. There was a significant difference between the scores of attitude based on education and age and history of disease. The attitude of people with high education is more positive than people with low education. People with underlying disease have a positive attitude to the environmental and people with high age have a positive attitude toward people with low ages.

Based on the results of the research, although the scores of knowledge and attitude of citizens of Mohajeran were high and positive than the environment, but, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive program in order to provide human development, in order to promote literacy and environmental culture. It is hoped the results to help the relevant authorities and policymakers in planning.