Environmental attitudes and behaviours of students at the University of Zadar

Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati ekološke stavove i ponašanja, njihovu međusobnu povezanost i povezanost ekološkog ponašanja s materijalizmom. Ovaj rad temelji se na rezultatima provedenog anketnog upitnika na prigodnom uzorku (N=375) studenata i studentica Sveučilišta u Zadru, 1. godine preddiplomskog i 1. godine diplomskog studija. Dobiveni rezultati pokazali su da se studentice i studenti razlikuju s obzirom na pripadnost određenoj socioekološkoj orijentaciji. Studentice se više priklanjaju orijentaciji naturalizma, dok studenti postižu veći rezultat na indeksu antropocentrizma i tehnocentrizma. Nadalje, na temelju rezultata istraživanja utvrdila se povezanost između ekoloških stavova i ekološkog ponašanja, ali ta povezanost nije se pokazala na svim dimenzijama ekološkog ponašanja te se zaključilo da ekološki stavovi nisu uvijek povezani s ekološkim ponašanjem. Isto tako, rezultatima istraživanja se pokazalo kako postoji povezanost između indeksa postmaterijalizma i dimenzija ekološkog ponašanja tj. studenti/ice postmaterijalističkih vrijednosti skloniji su ekološki svjesnijem ponašanju od materijalistički orijentiranih studenata/ica.The objective of this research is to examine environmental attitudes and behaviours, their interconnection and connection between environmental behaviour and materialism. This paper is based on the results of a survey conducted on the sample of 375 students of the 1st year of undergraduate and 1st year of graduate study at the University of Zadar. The results showed that female and male students differ in affiliation to the particular socio-ecological orientation ie. female students showed more inclination to the orientation of naturalism, while male students affirm as antropocectristic/technocentristic. Furthermore, on the basis of the results the connection between environmental attitudes and behaviours was proven, but that connection is not presented on all dimensions of the environmental behaviours and coclusion, therefore, is that the environmental attitudes are not always in correlation with the environmental behaviour. In addition, it is proved that the connection between index of postmaterialism and dimensions of environmental behaviour exists ie. students with postamerialistic values are prone to have better environmentally conscious behaviour than materialistic students