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Publication Date: 2021-Sep-27
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More Is Not Always Better: A Study of Country-Level Factors Associated with Adolescents' Environmental Attitudes Using a Multilevel Analysis of PISA 2006
Gong, Byoung-gyu; Zheng, Yi
Education Policy Analysis Archives, v29 n125 spec iss Sep 2021
In recent decades, environmental problems have rapidly worsened to become a planetary crisis, and mounting scientific evidence supports that this crisis is anthropogenic. With the growing concern over the anthropogenic ecological crisis, there has been more attention to the factors influencing people's pro-environmental attitudes. However, limited research on the adolescent population exists, and country-level factors were rarely explored with mixed findings. This study examines whether and how three country-level factors of national consumption, national average environmental knowledge, and national income level significantly impact students' environmental attitudes, using multilevel modeling methods. The analysis results show that adolescents' environmental attitudes are negatively related to the national consumption and environmental knowledge level after controlling for important individual-level factors while having no significant relationship with the national income level. This study concludes with a discussion on the future direction of environmental education and studies.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Environmental Education, Futures (of Society), Income, Conservation (Concept), Climate, Ecology, Knowledge Level, Correlation, Energy Conservation, Educational Trends, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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