Lisans Düzeyinde Turizm Eğitimi Alan Öğrencilerin Çevre Kimliklerinin Belirlenmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma (A Research on Determination of Environmental Identities of Undergraduate Students Studying Tourism)
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https://doi.org/10.21325/jotags.2020.602Keywords:
Environment, Environmental identity, Tourism studentsAbstract
The purpose of this research is to determine the environmental identity of students who are studying undergraduate tourism. Within the scope of the research, it is also aimed to detect the differences in the department (tourism management, gastronomy and culinary arts and tourism guidance department), gender and class. In order to determine the internal consistency of the items in the environmental identity scale, reliability analysis was performed. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the reliability value of the environmental identity scale was 88,2% (α=0,882). As a result of the applied Kruskal-Wallis test, a significant difference was found between the environmental identity of the students and the department they read (p=0,044<0,05) and their classes (p=0,000<0,05). As a result of the Mann-Whitney U Test conducted to determine whether there are statistically significant differences between the genders and the environmental identities of the students, a significant difference (p=0,000<0,05) was detected between the genders and the environmental identities of the students. According to the test result, it is possible to comment that female students have a stronger environmental identity than male students. In addition, in the results of the descriptive analysis of the environmental identity scale, the mean of the environmental identity scale was X̄ =5,394, ss= 0,824. These results show that tourism students have a strong environmental identity.
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