PERSONAL VALUES AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AS PREDICTORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

Mrs. Kanchan Sinha

Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

PERSONAL VALUES AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AS PREDICTORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

Mrs. Kanchan Sinha

Abstract :

The present study is focused on to find out the correlation between Environmental Awareness and Values as well as Socio Economic Status of adolescents ( students of Govt. Higher Secondary School) and to find the predictors of values which will predict the Environmental awareness in Durg district of Chhattisgarh. The Sample consists of 320 adolescents which were selected randomly. For collecting data, Environmental Awareness Ability Measures(EAAM),Personal Values Questionnaire(PVR) and Socio–Economic Status Scale(SESS),constructed by Praveen Kumar Jha(1998) ;Dr.G.P.Sherry & Prof.R.P.Verma and Meenakshi Sharma respectively, were used. The descriptive statistics such as mean , t–value and correlation were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that Environmental Awareness was negatively correlated with Values and Socio–Economic Status.Among ten dimension of values asthetic value predicts environmental awareness.s