Ali asghar firozjaeian; sadegh salehi; azadeh shafiei
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Autumn 2017, , Pages 51-70
Abstract
Social apathy is one of the serious cultural damages to our society in the field of citizenship. One of the social apathy is environmental apathy. The method is survey and data collected by questionnaire tool. For this purpose, statistical society was all people over 18 years in Yazd and the sample size ...
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Social apathy is one of the serious cultural damages to our society in the field of citizenship. One of the social apathy is environmental apathy. The method is survey and data collected by questionnaire tool. For this purpose, statistical society was all people over 18 years in Yazd and the sample size was 390 inhabitants in yazd city that elected by method of clustering sampling theoretical framework in selected with emphasis on environmental theories. After collecting data, hypotheses were studied in both descriptive and inferential level through the SPSS and Amos software. The results showed that environmental apathy is affected by environmental attitude, sense of responsibility, environmental knowledge and efficiency.so with the increase of these variables, it reduced environmental apathy. Environmental attitude affects on apathy more than others and the efficiency has the least impact. Among the demographic variables (gender, marital, income, age, education), only the relationships between education and environmental apathy are significant and individuals with under diploma educated are more apathetic. Path analysis showed that 26 percent of apathy is explained by the variables.
