A Study on Environmental Attitude and Ecological Behaviour

Changing human behaviour to save the environment is an extremely important topic. There is a big difference between knowing that people react negatively to filthy urban areas or to energy or resource shortages, and getting them to do something about solving problems. We need to devote more research attention to study how we can have a positive effect on the environment; as opposed to focusing as how it affects us. The present study aimed at finding out the relationship between environmental attitude and ecological behaviour among college students. A sample of 100 students from city colleges was selected using convenience sampling which includes 40 males and 60 females of age ranging from 18 to 32. The tools used in the study were Environmental Attitude scale (Florian Kaiser etal., 1999) and General Ecological Behaviour Scale (Kaiser & Wilson, 2003). Using Karl Pearson product moment correlation, it was found out that there was a significant relationship between environmental attitude and ecological behaviour among college students.