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A Study on the Environmental Education and the Environmental Awareness Behaviro of Consumer (환경교육이 환경의식적 소비자행동에 미치는 영향에 관한연구)

  • 심미영
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.197-210
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation and the influence of the environmental education and the environmental awareness on environmental awareness behavior of consumer. the finding were as follows; The environmental awareness behavior of consumer had significant difference according to degree of education and house pattern but had no significant difference according to state of job. The environmental education had significant difference all type in environmental awareness behavior of consumer but the environmental awareness had significant difference except II(behavior of purchase in green product), The correlation among the environmental education the environmental awareness and the environmental awareness behavior of consumer was very high but the environmental education and type II in the environmental awareness behavior of consumer was very. low The environmental education and the environmental awareness had direct and indirect influence on the envir nmental awareness behavior of consumer expect type II.

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The Influence of College Students' Consumption Value on Consumer Attitudes Towards Environmental Awareness and Clothing Environmental Behavior (대학생의 소비가치가 환경의식 소비자태도와 환경 의생활행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Eun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2016
  • The object of this study is to find out the influence of college students' consumption value on consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness and clothing environmental behavior. Questionnaires were administered to 236 college students living in DaeguCity and Kyoungbuk province. Frequency, factor analysis, reliability analysis, regression analysis, and t-test were used for data analysis. Our findings are as follows. Consumption value of college students had factors as differentiated, consumption needs, utility, economies ostentation, others awareness, and belonging. Consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness were found as environmental importance, environmental product purchase, environmental product interest, and environmental action. Clothing environmental behavior were found as up cycle, buying eco-friendly clothing, active participation, saver purchase, and eco-friendly clothing management. The result of this study showed differentiated, others awareness, and belonging had significant effect of environmental product purchase and consumption needs, utility, and belonging had significant effect of environmental action. Differentiated, and others awareness had significant effect of up cycle, buying eco-friendly clothing, active participation, and eco-friendly clothing management. Gender of college students showed significant differences consumption value, consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness, and clothing environmental behavior.

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Attitudes Inward Clothing and Green Store Usage, Followed by Green Store User's Consciousness of the Environment (녹색가게 이용자의 환경의식에 따른 녹색가게 이용 실태와 의복 태도에 관한 연구)

  • Seok Hye Jung;Kim In Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.43 no.6 s.208
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    • pp.171-182
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    • 2005
  • This study discusses the environmental awareness and the second-hand clothing usage of those consumers who actively purchase used clothing through a clothing swap at a used clothing market. The study used the questionnaire method, weか the subjects being those with experience of buying second-hand clothing. The findings were as follows. 1. The group of higher environmental awareness differed from the group with low environmental awareness in terms of donating or swapping clothing at a green store or in terms of discontinuing the wearing of used clothing bought from a green store. 2. The higher environmental awareness group valued fashion, status symbols and the alignment with others while the group with low environmental awareness valued comfort and economy more than those with the higher environmental awareness. 3. It was discovered that environmental awareness, education and income levels were interrelated.

Study of the General Consumers and Apparel Firm Workers' Reliability and Awareness of Environmental Friendly Textile Material (일반소비자와 의류업체 종사자의 친환경섬유소재에 대한 인지도와 신뢰도 연구)

  • Chun, Jong-Suk;Song, Hyun-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.634-643
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    • 2009
  • The aim of this study was investigating the consumers' and apparel firm worker's awareness and reliability of the environmental friendly textile materials. The subjects of the questionnaire survey were general consumers(n=235) and workers at Korean apparel firms(n=236). The questionnaire was developed to measure the awareness and reliability on nine environmental friendly textile materials. The results showed that general consumers had a higher reliability on the function of the environmental friendly materials but had a lower awareness than the workers at the apparel firms. Women and subjects, who experienced in purchasing the environmental friendly products, had higher awareness and reliability of the environmental friendly textile materials than others. The workers at apparel firms had higher awareness of the environmental friendly textile materials than the general consumers, but the reliability on the function of the materials was relatively low. The reliability and awareness differed by the firms' major products and their jobs. The workers at the children's clothing firms and sportswear firms had higher level of awareness about the environmental friendly textile than the workers at the casual-wear firms. The workers' awareness on environmental friendly textile materials was differentiated by their jobs. The product developers and material buyers had higher awareness on the environmental friendly textiles compare to the workers of the sales or marketing division. These results imply that promoting environmental friendly textile material to the sales person is needed in order to increase the sales volume of the products.

A study on the Status of Environmental Education and Nautural Environmental Awareness among the Company Employees of Metropolitan Seoul (수도권 거주 직장인들의 환경교육 현황 및 자연환경의식 조사에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, In-Sook;Choi, Kyung-Hee;Lee, Sang-Don
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to promote the status of environmental education and environmental awareness among employees in company levels. To achieve the study purpose we measured the infrastructure of companies (e.g., re-education programs and social contribution activities) and how these enhance environmental awareness to the employees. The survey was conducted by questioning 100 company employees. The questionnaire was composed of two parts : 1) environmental pollution and 2) nature conservation. The Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA was applied to compare groups. The results can be summarized as follows : First, the environmental education for employees in companies is insufficient; however, environmental education should be necessary and the employees provided with environmental education by their companies appeared to be highly satisfied (p<0.05) than groups without appropriate environmental education. Second, volunteer workers for participating environmental education programs and events are rare; however, employees who participated in volunteer efforts scored the highest in environmental awareness. Third, those that participated in environmental education programs and volunteer works were ranked the highest in environmental awareness (p<0.05) in 10 categories of questions. Based on the study, the environmental education and the volunteer work appeared to be effective tools in boosting environmental awareness among company workers. In conclusion, environment oriented volunteer work is an effective way to improve environmental awareness toward adults.

Linkage between Public Policy, Green Technology and Green Products on Environmental Awareness in the Urban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Saifullah, Md. Khaled;Kari, Fatimah Binti;Ali, Md. Arphan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that have an impact on public policy, green products and technology in Kuala Lumpur, given government initiatives to boost the environment awareness. The data used in this study was collected by distribution questionnaires randomly in six areas of Kuala Lumpur and 400 respondents were interviewed. Based on a literature review, three hypotheses were stated and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). SEM is a statistical analysis method that involved two or more variables in analyzing structural relationships among the variables. The SEM model shows that green products and government policies have a direct influence on environmental awareness. However, green technology does not have a direct influence on environmental awareness. Since, knowledge on green technology does not have a significant impact on raising environmental awareness among the public, a much more pragmatic awareness campaign needs to be put in place to use green technology as a part of modern living. The study suggests that the urban population needs to be more aware of the environmental issue as cities tend to have better infrastructure to raise public awareness on green issues. Moreover, the government should increase the environmental awareness among younger generation through workshops, seminars, campaigns, and pamphlets.

Environmental Sustainability Awareness in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • KHAN, Uzma;HAQUE, Mohammad Imdadul;KHAN, Aarif Mohammad
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.9
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    • pp.687-695
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    • 2020
  • The study attempts to assess the level of environmental sustainability awareness in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the process, the study tries to assess the impact of extracurricular activities in increasing awareness of environmental sustainability. A survey questionnaire was administered to the students of Prince Sattam University and other universities of Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire comprises statements on simple environmental conservation activities, which we come across on a daily basis. Hypothesis testing is used to identify significant differences across different categories of respondents. Further, the method of binary logistic regression is used to analyze the data. Though all the respondents agree that conserving the environment is important still there are significant differences across categories when it comes to believing in and practicing environmentally-responsible behavior. The results show that environmental awareness can be increased using awareness activities on sustainability issues in a University setting. The study concludes that increasing the number of extracurricular activities on environmental topics as only 38% of the respondents reported any activity related to the environment in the past year. The findings of this study suggest that increased awareness of environmental issues can boost the sustainability awareness, which will ultimately lead to a sustainable environment.

Matriculation Motive and Environmental Awareness of Freshman in Environmental Education Department (환경교육과 신입생의 입학 동기 및 환경에 대한 인식 변화 - 한국교원대학교 신입생을 대상으로 -)

  • Cho, Seong-Hoa;Choi, Don-Hyung
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.51-64
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this research is to study motivation of freshmen in Environmental Education Department for choosing their major, and their environmental awareness in overall. The subject for this research is twenty freshmen, majoring Environmental Education at Korea National University of Education in 2007, and methods of the research include survey through questionnaires, reviewing literature of the field, and conference with experts in Environmental Education. After the research, six freshmen's motivation for choosing Environmental Education as their major changed positively. Awareness of the environment in residential area changed somewhat negatively, while awareness of the nation's overall environment changed positively. Subjects' recognition for the need of Environmental Education was generally negative in both the first and second surveys whereas that of sustainable society changed more remarkably throughout the surveys. Most subject thought that the most important issue Environmental teachers should teach is proper attitudes towards and reasonable actions for the environment.

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A Study on the Environmental Awareness and Attitude of Elementary School Students (초등학교 학생들의 환경인식과 태도에 관한 연구)

  • 김인호;주신하;안동만
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.122-132
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to survey and analyze the environmental awareness and attitude of elementary school students, adapting the CHEAKS(Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale) for Korean elementary students, which is the valid-tested tools for children's environmental awareness and altitude. The subjects are 580 students from 6 elementary schools. The differences of the environmental attitude are surveyed and analyzed by environmental education activities, such as environmental activities in school and “the school forest movement”, and environmental awareness and concern. The results are as followings: First, the subjects replied that the environmental problems are very serious, such as atmospheric pollution(37.6%), water pollution(22.2%) and food waste(16.3%), but they are relatively optimistic of the future environment. Second, the verbal commitment subdomain and the affect domain are evaluated higher than the actual commitment subdomain, and the environmental issues of water, energy and recycling are considered more importantly than other issues such as environmental generals, pollutions and animals. Third, the grade and the sex have little effect on the environmental attitude, but the environmental education activities have great positive effect, such as the experience of environmental camping, the education of saving resources, waste separation and the experience of raising plants and flowers. Fourth, the students with high awareness and concern about the environmental problems have high environmental attitude. Especially, the awareness and concern on the flowers and plants have very strong correlation with environmental attitude, regardless of the subdomains. Finally, the students from the school participating “the school forest movement” have relatively positive environmental attitude. Particularly, the participation of students and the positive approach of the school have positively great influence on the students' environmental attitude in all of 3 subdomains and 6 environmental issues.

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The Change of Elementary School Student's Awareness on the Environment after Ecological Education Programs (생태환경교육을 통한 초등학생의 환경 인식 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Huh, Jung-Rim;Choi, Kyung-Hee;Park, Seok-Soon
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.12-25
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was intended to identify the difference of two sample groups for the student's awareness on the environment after ecological education in elementary school. For the elementary school participated in this study, we studied how the education influences the student's awareness on the environment using survey. The result showed that even though various kinds of environmental education programs were given to the participated group, there was no significance compared with the other group who did not participate. This was probably because the students not participated in the education program were frequently exposed to other similar types of environmental activities. In terms of the change of the student's awareness on the environment and their desire for continuing environmental education in future, 95.8% of students who participated in the survey showed positive answers. Considering the current environmental education that has mostly been made in class and the lack of variety of the education program, various types of environmental education programs are required, so schools, education system, and social groups should work together to compensate for the lack of the in-class education. In addition, the change of students awareness and altitude toward the environment proved the positive effect of the environmental program and showed the appropriateness increasing the opportunity for the environmental education.

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