The effect of some social characteristics of rural youth on their concern towards environmental issues in some rural areas in Egypt.
Abstract: A great deal of research effort in the field of environmental sociology has been directed towards examining the people public's attitudes toward environmental issues. The study identifies and explains the relationship between public concern of rural youth in some rural areas in Egypt toward environmental issues and their age, gender, marital status, education levels, family monthly income, family size of youth, and place of residence. Seven general hypotheses and conceptual explanations of these characteristics can be identified. Twenty four statements in questionnaire were designed to examine participants' public concern toward a variety of environmental issues.
A compatible model of Anthony Downs (1972), the issues attention cycle, has played an important theoretical role in the current study. It will be used as a benchmark in reviewing trends in the public opinion of rural youth toward environmental issues. The study used a random sample that included two hundred of rural _youth. Descriptive analysis was used to identify the social characteristics of youth and their opinion toward environmental issues. For a variety of environmental attitudes and issues, the study employed a principle components factor analysis using varimax rotation and listwise deletion.
The results of correlation indicate that age was positively correlating to public concern of youth toward environmental issues of water, air, and soil pollution. Education level of youth and their family monthly income were negatively correlating to public concern of youth toward environmental issues, limits to growth. The study found that female youth were likely to have favorable public concern toward environmental issues than male youth regarding limits to growth. Place of residence was a predictor of the public concern of youth toward all sets of environmental issues, the study suggests that big villages residents of youth were found to have significant greater concern toward environmental issues than small villages residents of youth. The study does not demonstrate any relationship between family size of rural youth and their marital status and their public concern toward environmental issues.
Publication year 2005
Pages 1-20
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library – agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 96
Organization Name
Country Egypt
City Cairo
Publisher Name: Cairo Demographic Center
serial title Cairo Demographic Center
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Youth.
Publication Type Conference/Workshop
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