Causal Relationship Model of Environmental Education

Abstract

Environmental education has been accepted and applied for encouraging the global citizens to take a responsible
practice through their behavior changing in daily life activity. This might be an effective and rapid change to decrease the
greenhouse gases via the awareness raising, attitude and value adjusting, skill and participation increasing including real
practice in daily living. The populations will be undergraduate students of academic year 2011 of Mahasarakham University. The
Multi-stage random sampling was used to collect the sample for 450 undergraduate students from different faculties. The
questionnaire was employed as instrument for data collecting. LISREL was used for model verification. Results illustrated that
considering on structural model confirmatory factors of Environmental Education (EE) was able to explain the variation of
endogenous factors of Psychological Trait (Trait) caused endogenous factor of Environmental Behaviors for Global Warming
Alleviation (BEH) with 82.0 percents. BEH = 0.29 TRAIT + 0.75 EE ……………………..(1)
(R2 = 0.82)