Environmental Awareness of the College Students with respect to Sex and Faculty

Abstract

The study has been undertaken to find out the effect of sex and faculty on Environmental Awareness of the college students. Environment Awareness Ability Measure (EAAM) constructed by Praveenkumar Zha was administered on 300 subjects; 100-100 students from arts, commerce and science faculties, half of them were male and half female. All students were First year college students from Gadhinglaj area of Kolhapur District. The data analyzed by using two-way ANOVA and further analyzed with Scheffe post hoc test. Results indicated that significant difference in environmental awareness was found for sex as well as faculty. But no significant interaction effect between sex and faculty found on environmental awareness of the college students.