Investigating the factors affecting village governor's participation in rural environmental protection in Sari

The environment is one of the critical and most vulnerable aspects in villages which the present study has been done to investigate factors influencing the village governors’ participation in the protection of the rural sari’s city. The study adopted an applied descriptive-correlation approach as its methodology. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the village governors in Sari summing up to 249 among whom 129 subjects were selected using Cochran formula. In order to reach an optimal sample size, 30 others were added to the sample and a total of 159 subjects were considered as the study sample. To select the subjects, the stratified proportional random sampling was also used. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire the content validity of which was estimated using agricultural extension experts’ approval and the reliability was assessed to be 0/85 using Chronbach’s alpha coefficient and a total of 130 questionnaires were filled and responded. According to the findings, there is no significant correlation between age, income, working record and employment characteristics and environmental protection. There is a significant positive correlation at 1 percent error level between the social, educational, economic and attitudinal factors contributing to the environment protection. Based on the results of the ordinal regression analysis, 36 percent of the criterion variable variance (participation in environmental protection) is explained by the economic, social, attitudinal and educational variables which were significantly correlating with the dependent variable.