Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH, cilt.7, sa.3, ss.269-282, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Ecological intelligence is a comprehensive understanding that aims to create an
awareness regarding how human activities affect ecosystems and to promote
preventing unconscious consumption behaviors that would lead to a sustainable
life. It enables us to take social, economic and environmental responsibility, also
to act cooperatively and sensitively against ecological problems. All this would
pave the way for maintaining strong global sustainability in our ecological
objectives. This study explores the levels of ecological intelligence (LoEI) of
university students; it also investigates the role of the sub-dimensions of
ecological intelligence in predicting future participation in environmental
protection activities (EPAs). The data were collected via ecological intelligence
scale (EIS) and written open-response assessment (WORA) form by using a
sample of 179 students. According to the results, the model to predict
participation in EPAs indicated that a good discriminative ability with a
prediction accuracy of 79.3%. We found that the most significant variables for
the prediction of willingness to participate were ecologically conscious
purchasing behavior (ECPB), ecological sensitivity (ES), ecological knowledge
sharing (EKS) among the sub-dimensions of the EIS. This study is an important
contribution to solve environmental problems by developing an ecological
intelligence responding to the individual, social and economic needs of the next
generation.