Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, cilt.22, sa.1, ss.6240-6251, 2024 (Scopus)
This research aims to analyze the environmental awareness and behaviors of university students in detail and to determine how these behaviors are shaped in terms of positive and negative factors and how they are evaluated in the context of sustainability. Accordingly, 322 university students (112 male and 210 female) studying at Gazi University and Hacettepe University in Ankara participated in the study. Data were collected through face-to-face questionnaires to obtain the opinions of the participants. The questionnaires consisted of the Green Culture Scale adapted by Ayyıldız Durhan et al. and The Environmental Awareness in the Context of Sustainable developed by Atabek Yiğit and Balkan Kıyıcı, as well as demographic questions created by the researchers. After determining that the data obtained were normally distributed, parametric tests were applied. According to these tests, it was concluded that university students' gender, field of study, grade level and academic achievement levels significantly differentiate their environmental awareness levels in the context of green culture and sustainability, there are moderate positive relationships between green culture and environmental awareness in the context of sustainability, negative environmental awareness is stronger in explaining green culture than positive environmental awareness, and negative and positive environmental awareness together explain 34% of the variance of green culture. Accordingly, it can be said that environmental awareness levels have a significant effect on green culture.