The analysis of environmental attitudes of public junior high school students in ngawi

Abstract

Environmental attitudes need to be developed by the students in the 21st century due to the world's worse condition nowadays. Environmental attitudes are defined as someone's internal condition to be willing or unwilling to preserve and take care of the environment in order to keep it stable. Students who possess such attitudes make quite significant impacts on the environmental quality. Besides, environmental attitudes are able to increase problem solving and decision making especially on the environmental issues. The objective of this research is to analyse environmental attitudes of public junior high school students in Ngawi. The participants are 7 graders of public junior high schools in Ngawi. The data are collected by distributing questionnaire concerning environmental attitudes based on NEP by Dunlap. The result indicates that the percentage of students categorized as pro is 38.33%, ones categorized as middle is 60.83%, and ones categorized as anti is 0.83%. Based on the result, it is concluded that the majority of the environmental attitudes of public junior high school students in Ngawi are categorized as middle. It becomes a serious concern to create better environmental quality.