Analyzing the Relationship among Environmental Ethics Dimensions of Agricultural ‎Students

Identification of students’ ethics towards environment as a reference, ‎knowledgeable and effective group of society, can be an important stage in the ‎environmental policy making and planning of national higher education. Thus, the purpose ‎of this study was to investigate the relationship among environmental ethics dimensions ‎in agricultural students of university of Mohaghegh Ardabili.‎

This research was a descriptive-correlation study. The statistical population ‎includes all PhD. M.Sc. and M.A. agriculture and natural resources student of university of ‎Mohaghegh Ardabili, which according to Cochran formula sample size determined as 140 ‎people and using stratified random sampling method the information gathered. The main ‎research tools was a questionnaire which its validity confirmed by panel of experts and ‎reliability of scales evaluated by Alpha Coronbach, CR and AVE. For analyzing data, ‎descriptive and analytical statistic have been used and structural equation modeling (SEM) ‎applied to evaluate the relation between different dimensions of environmental ethics. In ‎addition, SPSS and Lisrel used for data processing.‎

Finding showed that there is a significant relation between human-centered with ‎ecosystem-centered (0.47) and God-centered (0.71) dimension of environmental ethics. ‎Also, based on correlation analysis, there was a significant relation between ecosystem-‎centered and God-centered dimension (0.58).‎

Considering relationship between human-centered with ecosystem-centered and God-‎centered, and significant relationship between ecosystem-centered and God-centered, the main ‎focus of educational and cultural programs in universities must be to training such student ‎whose beside high level of God-centered, acquired high level of human-centered and ‎ecosystem-centered of environmental ethics.‎