反環境汚染行動に関するモデルの経験的検討

岩田 紀

doi:10.4992/jjpsy.48.315

EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF A MODEL FOR ANTI-POLLUTION BEHAVIOR

OSAMU IWATA

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1978 Volume 48 Issue 6 Pages 315-320

DOI https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.48.315

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Published: March 20, 1978 Received: March 22, 1977 Available on J-STAGE: July 16, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: July 16, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: ABSTRACT Details: Wrong : A model of anti-pollution behavior was set up which consisted of five independent variables. One hundred and eighty-nine subjects (96 males and 93 females) who were fathers and mothers of children at kindergarten responded to 83 five-point scales which were related to the five independent variables and two dependent variables of anti-pollution purchasing behavior and anti-pollution coping behavior. Scores of one to five were assigned to responses in order that the higher score might indicate the higher level of a given variable.
To examine internal consistency among scales which were supposed to constitute each variable, the total score was obtained and product-moment correlation coefficients were computed between this score and respective scores of these scales. Based upon these data, final scales were selected for all the variables: Four scales each for the approach to information of environmental problems (r≥.605), confidence in science and technology (r≥.577), appreciation of natural beauty (r≥.620) and insight into the consequences of pollution (r≥.630), seven scales for awareness of causes of pollution (r≥.449), four scales for antipollution purchasing behavior (r≥.515) and 16 scales for anti-pollution coping behavior (r≥.400). In this decision, taking the response distribution of respective scales into consideration, scales whose standard deviations were under. 98 were excluded from the final scales which constituted the respective variables.
Using these final scales, total scores were obtained for the respective variables by adding the scores of their final scales. Product-moment correlation coefficients were computed among the total scores of seven variables. Six-variables path analysis was carried out for anti-pollution purchasing behavior or anti-pollution coping behavior with the five independent variables.
Results of both types of anti-pollution behavior quite similarly indicated that the approach to information on environmental problems was a moderately strong direct determinant of anti-pollution behavior while the awareness of causes of pollution was a weak one. In addition, insight into the consequences of pollution had a weak indirect and/or common effect upon anti-pollution behavior. On the contrary, confidence in science and technology and the appreciation of natural beauty were found to be an insignificant determining factors of anti-pollution behavior. It was suggested from these results that a proposed model of anti-pollution behavior should be modified.
Adding age as an independent variables, correlation coefficients were calculated between eight variables. Path coefficients were separately computed for males and females between six independent variables and anti-pollution purchasing behavior or anti-pollution coping behavior, All path coefficients were insignificant. But sex differences were discovered in the indirect and/or common effect of the appreciation of natural beauty and insight into the consequences of pollution upon both, or either of, anti-pollution behaviors.
Finally, the present findings were discussed in relation to environmental education.
Right : A model of anti-pollution behavior was set up which consisted of five independent variables: Approach to information on environmental problems, confidence in science and technology, appreciation of natural beauty, awareness of causes of pollution, and insight into the consequences of pollution. Anti-pollution behavior included purchasing behavior and coping behavior. One hundred eighty-nine adults responded to 83 five-point scales. Correlation coefficients were calculated and six-variable path analyses were carried out for purchasing behavior and coping behavior. Results indicate that the approach to information on environmental problems was a moderately strong direct determinant of anti-pollution behavior but that awareness of the causes of pollution was a weak one. Insight into the consequences of pollution had a weak indirect and/or common effect upon anti-pollution behavior.

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A model of anti-pollution behavior was set up which consisted of five independent variables: Approach to information on environmental problems, confidence in science and technology, appreciation of natural beauty, awareness of causes of pollution, and insight into the consequences of pollution. Anti-pollution behavior included purchasing behavior and coping behavior. One hundred eighty-nine adults responded to 83 five-point scales. Correlation coefficients were calculated and six-variable path analyses were carried out for purchasing behavior and coping behavior. Results indicate that the approach to information on environmental problems was a moderately strong direct determinant of anti-pollution behavior but that awareness of the causes of pollution was a weak one. Insight into the consequences of pollution had a weak indirect and/or common effect upon anti-pollution behavior.

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