Gender and economic orientation as correlates of attitudes towards environmental abuse: A study of a group of Nigerian undergraduates

Ibrahim Fausat M. () and Ibrahim Bashirat A.
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Ibrahim Fausat M.: Federal College of Forestry, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, P.M.B. 5087, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Ibrahim Bashirat A.: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2018, vol. 6, issue 1, 17-24

Abstract: Equity is central to concerns over environmental sustainability. Gender and economic power constitute prime bases of inequalities in human society. Moreover, university education has the potential to produce ideal individuals equipped to advance noble causes including environmental sanity. Hence, this study was designed to examine how economic and gender orientation affects attitude towards environmental abuse among a group of Nigerian undergraduates. Structured questionnaire were self-administered to 1120 randomly selected respondents and 1098 were analyzed. Multi-item measures were used to assess variables. One way ANOVA, Brown-Forsythe's test and Spearman's correlation r were used to analyze data. Results show that the mean score for attitudes towards environmental abuse was high (5.38±0.87, min. = 1.0, max. = 7.0) but, the generic pattern for attitude was fairly environmentally friendly because only 56.7% of respondents scored the mean or above. Age, sex and marital status had no effect on their attitude (p > 0.05) but religion and field of study did (p

Keywords: gender; economic orientation; attitude; environmental abuse; undergraduates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/environ-2018-0003

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