A Scale Development Study on the Attitudes of Sustainable Development

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The purpose of this study is to develop a measuring tool so as to determine the attitudes of students in secondary schools on sustainable development. The working group of this study is composed of 304 students, 133 (44%) girls and 171 (56%) boys, who study in various secondary schools in Siirt city center in 2012 – 2013 educational year. Data were collected by a 23- item “The Attitude Scale for the Sustainable Development” developed as a result of literature survey and content analysis of compositions about the appropriate behaviors for ‘Sustainable Environment’, ‘Sustainable Economy’ and ‘Social Sustainability ’ written by eight students in secondary schools. To the data athered was applied an exploratory factor analysis. 21 items with the construct validity were included in the final form of the scale. It was found that there were three factors; namely, social sustainability, environmental sustainability and economical sustainability, in the scale. The Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency of the scale was calculated when the final form appeared. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the construct validity of the three – dimensional scale.

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Sustainable developoment , environmental sustainability , social sustainability , economical sustainability , scale development

International Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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International Journal of Geography and Geography Education