英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of elementary students’ behavioral intentions on waste reduction and its related factors. Two behavior science models, theory of reasoned action by Ajzen and Fishbein (1980), and self-efficacy by Bandura (1977), were applied in this study to interpretate the results from the questionnaire survey. The samples were selected by stratified cluster sampling from fifth and sixth grade students in an elementary school in Taipei city during the first academic semester in 2009. The total number of subjects participated in the study were 318. Both open-ended elicitation questionnaire and structured questionnaire were used in the survey. The followings are the results of this study: 1. Most of the students in this elementary school showed willingness to engage in waste reduction. 2. More than eighty percent of the students hold positive attitudes on waste reduction. They believe their parents, teachers, peers and the environmental protection groups supported them to engage in waste reduction. ’’I have no time’’ and ’’I am too tired’’ were the two biggest factors that hinder students from waste reduction behavior. It also showed that these elementary school students were not good time managers. 3. Attitudes have significant positive correlations with the product of behavioral beliefs and outcome evaluations. There are also significant positive correlations between subjective norms and the product of normative beliefs and motivation to comply. 4. Elementary students’ intentions to engage in waste reduction can be remarkably predicted by three factors: their attitude on waste reduction, their subjective norms and self-efficacy. The explanatory power is 31% toward waste reduction intentions. Attitude is the most influential factor, followed by self-efficacy and subjective norms. 5. There are three external variables including knowledge of waste reduction, grade and self recycling frequency can significantly predict the intentions of waste reduction. 6. The results support the hypothesis that a combination of Theory of Reasoned Action and Self-efficacy can successfully predict the behavioral intentions on waste reduction. |