Environmental concern of university students in the federal education institute in rural Goiás, Brazil

• Main Authors: Aurélio Ferreira Borges, Maria dos Anjos Cunha Silva Borges, José Luiz Pereira de Rezende, Antônio FerreiraNeto, Suely Cunha da Silva, Marcos Aurélio Anequine de Macedo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2013-11-01
• Series: Ciência Rural
• Subjects: estudantes de graduação; confiabilidade; escala de preocupação ambiental
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782013001100029&lng=en&tlng=en

In this research the adaptation and validation of the Environmental Concern Scale (ECS) for Brazilian Portuguese and the environmental concerns of students were described. After being translated with the assistance of an expert teacher in Spanish language, the ECS was administered to two samples: one of university students (N=153) from Federal Institute of Education Goiano (IF GOIANO), Rio Verde campus, and another of public servants evaluators (N=13) from Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rondônia (IFRO), Colorado do Oeste campus. Content validity, reliability and construct validity were evaluated. Statistical properties obtained proved the quality of the measurement instrument of Environmental Concern. The agreement style of evaluators with the ECS admitted values for average central tendency, median and mode close to 4.00, in a scale of values from 1.00 to 5.00. The environmental concern of students was low.