EXISTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS IN ADIWIYATA AND NON-ADIWIYATA SCHOOLS: ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

Abstract

This study aims to analyze differences in existential intelligence and pro-environmental behavior of students in Adiwiyata and non-Adiwiyata schools. The article describes a new idea of predicting pro-environmental behavior based on existential intelligence among high school students at Adiwiyata and non-Adiwiyata schools. This idea allows us to determine the differences in pro-environmental behavior between adiwiyata and non-adiwiyata schools. A total of 1,539 respondents participated in April-June 2021, consisting of students of Adiwiyata and non-Adiwiyata high schools in Semarang. The data were analyzed using Mann Withney Statistic Non-Parametric method. The new method effectiveness evaluation is confirmed by the calculation hypothesis testing using non-parametric statistics with the Mann-Whitney test. If significance (Sig.) < 0.05, then the hypothesis is supported empirically, and if Sig. > 0.05, then the hypothesis is not supported empirically. The results show that the existential intelligence of students in Adiwiyata schools is higher than the ones in non-Adiwiyata schools. Further, the pro-environmental behavior of students in Adiwiyata schools is also higher than the ones in non-Adiwiyata schools, confirming the differences in pro-environmental behavior of Adiwiyata and non-Adiwiyata schools through existential intelligence contribute to scientific novelty in this study. Increasing pro-environmental behavior can be done by increasing existential intelligence.