The study of grade students' cognition of energy sources,attitude toward energy use, and actual behavior of energy conservation in both Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County

• Main Authors: Ya-ping Chen, 陳雅萍
• Other Authors: Tzyy-Ling Hwu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44209094723142593762

碩士 === 立德大學 === 資源環境研究所 === 96 === The rapid growth of global economies and the world population has increased the depletion of natural energy and resources. For the sustainability of energy use, reusable energy sources should be developed, and the conservation of energy should be emphasized.The concept of sustainability of energy use needs to be established from childhood. And, without doubt, the energy-related lessons in grade schools play a key role to success. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sixth grade students’ cognition of energy sources, attitude toward energy use, and actual behavior of energy conservation in both Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County. Meanwhile, the relationship between these elements and their influences was also examined. The results hope to provide some suggestions for the grade school authorities on energy conservation lessons and plans. A questionnaire was designed by the researcher and served as the research tool. The total effective copies of the questionnaire were 612. The collected data were statistically analyzed by the frequency distribution, mean and standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's product moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. The findings indicate that these students’ main sources of energy-related information come from schoolteachers, family members, and books. The most frequent energy-related lessons or activities at school are recycling, film presentations, and public speeches on energy issues. Among them, film presentations are these graders’ favorite.The overall performances of the graders’ cognition of energy sources, attitude toward energy use, and actual behavior of energy conservation in both Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County are above the average. It shows that those school energy lessons have been effective. Therefore, the link between school energy lessons and family supports should be maintained.For the cognition of energy sources, the graders’ performances in Kaohsiung City are better than that in Kaohsiung County. For the attitude toward energy use, the females and those who come from the middle-class families tend to have more positive performances. As to the behavior of energy conservation, girls perform better than boys. The students from the middle-class and poor families perform vigorously than those from the rich families.Moreover, those who have participated in environmental protection or energy-related activities tend to have better performances in energy conservation behavior. The cognition of energy sources, the attitude toward energy use, and the energy conservation behavior have positively correlated with each other. Generally speaking, the more information of energy sources a student has, the more he or she will conserve the energy. Therefore, the school educators can make good use of this relationship to design energy-related lessons to elevate the degree of students’ willingness to conserve the energy.