Environmental risk perception environmental ethics and sustainable consumption practices among senior secondary school students in relation to scientific attitude

Abstract

The present study implied descriptive survey method to find out the significant difference in the mean scores of environmental risk perception, environmental ethics and sustainable consumption practices with low and high levels of scientific attitude among senior secondary school students of Chandigarh. The data was collected using self-constructed Environmental Risk Perception Questionnaire and Sustainable Consumption Practices Scale, EES by Taj (2001) and SAS by Khan and Siddiqui (2020). Independent t-test and 2×2 ANOVA revealed that science students scored higher across all the variables as compared to Arts stream. The study suggests promoting scientific attitude among senior secondary school students irrespective of subject streams to develop desired environmental behavior. newline