A Study of the Cognition, Attitude and Behaviors on the Global Warming for the Elementary School Students inBeidou Elementary School

• Main Authors: Yang,Hsi-Chung, 楊錫鈞
• Other Authors: Wu,Chao-Hsiung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6gm235

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 工學院碩士在職專班 === 99 === ABSTRACT In recent years, global warming seriously affects human life. It can be done only through conserve energy to reduce carbon emission to improve the phenomenon of excessive use of resources and achieve the environmental sustainability. In this study the investigations aimed to cognition, attitude and behaviors as global warming for elementary school students in Beidou elementary school. The influences of personal background variables upon cognition, attitude, behavior and the relations among them are concerned. A questionnaire survey was conducted with fourth and sixth grade elementary school students in Beidou elementary school. A response return rate of 100% with 260 effective questionnaires is well-done. Statistical software using descriptive statistics, single factor analysis of variance and Pearson correlation analysis is applied and discussed. The results are shown as following: （1）The grade and inhabited area can actually affect the cognition of global warming. （2）The gender and grade can actually affect the attitude of global warming. （3）The gender can actually affect the behavior of global warming. （4）Most of the forth and sixth grade students have positive performance in cognition , attitude and behaviors of global warming. It also shows a significant positive correlation with each other, in which the attitude and behavior of global warming are most closely correlated. Finally, based on the findings in this research, some suggestions would be useful for practice of global warming and future related research.