Measuring Environmental Attitude and Pro-Environmental Behavior

The study was undertaken to explore the relationship between environmental attitude and pro-environmental behavior and comparison of these variables among students/teachers, public/private secondary schools and different gender respondents. All the secondary schools both Public, as well as Private, Boys and girls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were the universe of the study. 200 Secondary level students and teachers were randomly selected as sample of the study. The data was collected through an adopted scale by Heyl, Moyano Díaz and Cifuentes¿s (2013) scale of ¿Environmental attitudes¿ and ¿Pro-Environmental Behavior¿. The data collected were processed by applying SPSS-23 version. Reliability test applied to test items of all three variables confirmed reliability from acceptable to good ranges. The mean value for all variables indicated agreement of respondents with the questions asked. The results of one sample t-test also give results expressing agreement of a majority of respondents with the questions raised in all three variables. There was a positive relationship between environmental attitude and pro-environmental behavior indicated by the results of Pearson correlation test.