Analysis of Green Chemistry Knowledge, Awareness and Practice Among the University Students

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the level of green chemistry knowledge, awareness, and practices among university students. This study also aims to analyze the relationship between green chemistry knowledge and awareness, green chemistry knowledge and practices, and also green chemistry awareness and green chemistry practices. This study employed survey as research design, and data was collected by distributing the questionnaires to 392 university students in Kuala Lumpur and Tanjung Malim by using the 44-questions questionnaire, which consists of 16 multiple-choice questions for green chemistry knowledge construct, and 14 questions which uses 5-point Likert scale questions for green chemistry awareness and practices respectively. Data were analysed descriptively to investigate the level of green chemistry knowledge, awareness and practices. This study has successfully revealed that the level of green chemistry knowledge and practices among university students is high, while the level of green chemistry awareness is very high. The correlation between the green chemistry knowledge, awareness and practice constructs seemed small when the data were analysed using the Pearson correlation coefficient. However, there seems to be no significant difference between education students and non-education students in their overall green chemistry knowledge, awareness and practices when the data was tested using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The multiple-choice questions for the green chemistry knowledge construct have been converted into a new instrument to be used for analyzing the university students’ knowledge levels, and further enables us to study the green chemistry knowledge, awareness, and practices using another factor.