Construction and validation of a knowledge, attitudes and practices scale related to sustainability in university students
| Autor: | Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias, Walter Alfredo Salas-Zapata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Higher education business.industry Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Education for sustainable development 01 natural sciences Environmental behavior Sustainability Sociology business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. 13:63-78 |
| ISSN: | 2050-7003 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/jarhe-12-2019-0307 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe objective of this study was to build and validate a scale to analyze the knowledge, attitudes and practices on the sustainability of university students.Design/methodology/approachPsychometric validation was carried out using the criteria of internal consistency, reliability, discriminant power, content validity and predictive validity.FindingsThe KAP scale designed in this study demonstrated excellent psychometric properties and is apt for evaluating knowledge, attitudes and practices in university students.Originality/valueTransitions toward sustainability require changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) related to sustainability, making it necessary to have tools that support educational interventions for sustainability that tend toward a generation of changes in the decisions and behavior of people. In that sense, a KAP scale can be a useful tool to support these interventions. However, studies that use validated scales are scarce. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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