Investigation of Cognitive and Affective Attitude of Students toward Environment and Their Environmental Behavioural Intention to Join Environmental Movement and Energy Conservation

Damianus Abun (1, 2) , Theogenia Magallanes (1) , Mary Joy Encarnacion (2) , Francisco Alkalde (2) , Kathleen A Somera (2)

1 St. Benedict College of Northern Luzon
2 Divine Word College of Vigan

The study wanted to investigate the cognitive and affective attitude of students towardenvironment and its relationship with their environmental behaviour, intention to join environmental movement and Conserve energy. In order to strengthen the study, theories related to human attitude and human behaviour, the influence of human attitude toward behaviour and attitude toward environment were discussed. Related studies were also reviewed to strengthen the theories. The study used descriptive correlational study. The population of the study was allSenior High School students of Divine Word College of Vigan. The data were gathered throughvalidated questionnaires. In order to analyse the data, statistical tools were used such as weighted mean was used to determine the level of cognitive and affective attitude toward environment and environmental behaviour, while the Pearson r was used to determine the correlation between cognitive and affective attitude toward environment and environmental behaviour. The study found that students have very high on cognitive and affective attitude toward environment particularly on anthropocentric and eco-centric view of the environment. However, though the students have very high anthropocentric and eco-centric cognitive and affective attitude but as a whole the attitude does not correlate to the environmental behaviour but there is a correlation between positive eco-centric cognitive attitude toward environment and personal conservation behaviour.

Mots clés: Cognitive attitude; eco-centric attitude; Environmental movement activism; personal conservation behaviour; affective attitude; anthropocentric

Domaines: Sciences cognitives; Etudes de l'environnement

Damianus Abun, Theogenia Magallanes, Mary Joy Encarnacion, Francisco Alkalde, Kathleen A Somera. Investigation of Cognitive and Affective Attitude of Students toward Environment and Their Environmental Behavioural Intention to Join Environmental Movement and Energy Conservation. The International Journal of Business Management and Technology, 2019, 3 (6), pp.110-129. ⟨hal-02388119⟩