Reliability and Validity Studies of the Turkish Version of the Children s Attitudes toward the Environment Scale Preschool Version CATES PV and the analysis of children s pro environmental behaviors according to different variables
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Prof. Dr. Hülya GÜLAY OGELMAN Pamukkale Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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Özgün Makale
(SCOPUS dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
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| Dergi Adı | Asian Social Science | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1911-2017 Dergi Bilgileri (2011) | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | ALAN | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 01-2011 |
| Kabul Tarihi | – | Yayınlanma Tarihi | 29-09-2011 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 7 / 10 / 229–240 | DOI | 10.5539/ass.v7n10p229 |
| Makale Linki | https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/download/10515/8753 | ||
| UAK Araştırma Alanları |
Okul Öncesi Eğitimi
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| Özet |
| In Turkey, the number of environmental education studies on young children is not sufficient. This is primarily due to the fact that scales for measuring the pro-environmental behaviors of young children are quite limited in number and are not common. This research has two aims which to carry out the reliability-validity studies of preschool environment scale, and to analyze the pro-environmental behaviors of 5-6 years old children with regard to different variables (age, gender, socio-economic level). The research included 171 children of 5-6 years of age receiving preschool education in the province of Denizli, Turkey. The Children's Attitudes Toward the Environment Scale-Preschool Version (CATES-PV) is a 15-item scale that one can use to assess the degree to which children's attitudes are pro-environmental. Study results have indicated that the CATES-PV Turkish Version is a reliable and valid measurement tool. The scale may be used to determine the pro-environmental behaviors of 5-6 years old Turkish children. This study provides a significant contribution to the field for further studies to be conducted in Turkey on the pro-environmental behaviors of young children. It is observed that the pro-environmental behaviors of the children included in the research differ according to age and socio-economic level. No difference was found between pro-environmental behaviors of children in terms of the gender variable. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| CATES-PV | Preschool period | Pro-environmental behaviors | Scale reliability and validity |
