Designing a Model of Environmental Behavior Among High School Teachers in Gorgan

The aim of this study was to design an environmental behavior model among high school teachers in Gorgan.

In general, the method of this research is descriptive in terms of applied purpose, in terms of controlling field variables and in terms of data collection. On the other hand, the present study can be considered as a kind of exploratory research. In the quantitative part of the research, in order to present the model of environmental behavior, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and then to present the structural model and to examine people's views about the situation of different dimensions of environmental behavior, the sample t-test has been used.

In the qualitative part of the research, based on the open and pivotal coding process of data obtained from in-depth and exploratory interviews, conceptual codes were extracted, 7 categories (main categories) were obtained, the main categories of the research model are: management and leadership, Development of policy and strategy, educational missions, environmental awareness, environmental behavior, social responsibility and organizational learning orientation. In the quantitative part of the research, in order to present the model of environmental behavior, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed and then the structural model of the research was presented. In the quantitative stage of the research, the final model of the research was presented with the subject of environmental behavior model among high school teachers in Gorgan.

The results showed that all factor loads were statistically significant and the results of the study of people's views on the status of dimensions of environmental behavior with one-sample t-test showed that all variables are in good condition among high school teachers in Gorgan.