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Standing for Where You Sit

An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Academic Major and Environment Beliefs

Department of Recreation and Park Administration at Indiana University

Doug Baker

Environmental Studies Program at the University of Northern British Columbia

This study examined the differences between academic major and reported attitudes and beliefs about the environment. Other variables investigated included sex, age, and place of residence. Throughout the 1993 and 1995 academic years, students within a variety of academic majors at a university in British Columbia were queried using a modified New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) instrument. Significant differences in environmental attitudes were observed in the variables of academic major, gender, and age. The results of this study suggest that individuals majoring in different academic disciplines place fundamentally different levels of concerns and express different beliefs regarding the environment.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 5, 687-707 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00139160121973197


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