Effects of Attitudes towards Book Reading on Secondary and University Students’ Environmental Responsible Environmental Behaviors
Mustafa Kahyaoğlu, Halit Kiriktaş

Abstract
The purpose of the research is to put forward the relationship between secondary school and university students’ reading attitudes towards environmental issues and their responsible environmental behaviors. This research also examined the effect of political behaviors, physical behaviors, commercial and economic behaviors as well as the behaviors aimed at persuading individuals and the society, which are among the responsible environmental behaviors, on the reading attitudes. In the study, the data was collected by means of “Responsible Environmental Behavior Scale” developed by Erdoğan, Ok & Marcinkowski (2012) as well as “The Attitude Scale towards Reading Book about Environmental Issues” developed by Kahyaoğlu (2011). The model used for the research was relational survey model and the data obtained from this research was analyzed through arithmetic average, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, correlation and regression analysis. The research results revealed that there was not a meaningful difference between secondary school and university students’ reading attitudes towards environmental issues, however there was a statistically meaningful difference between students’ responsible environmental behaviors.

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