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Investigating the relationship between ecological attitudes and behaviour.
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THE PERSON IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR ANN-MARIE ROY MATRIC NO: 200203890 TUTOR: JOSIE GALLOWAY ABSTRACT This correlational study investigated the relationship between ecological attitudes and behaviour using the Caledonian Ecological Attitudes Inventory program on Macintosh computers. Seventeen participants (16 female and 1 male) responded by indicating strength of feeling on four subscales: knowledge, affect, intended behaviour and actual behaviour. To investigate correlations between the subscales CALECOL generated scores were tested using Spearman's Rank Order correlation. All four hypotheses were taken to the p<0.05 level of significance and all revealed positive correlations. The results supported all three of the one-tailed hypotheses, positive correlations between the various subscales. The two tailed hypothesis, knowledge will not correlate with scores on the intended behaviour subscale was not supported. This study concludes that ecological knowledge, affect and intended behaviour towards ecological areas have a strong link each to other and to actual behaviour,...
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