Causal Relationship Model of Environmental Education and Psychological Trait

Abstract

Environmental education and psychological trait play important roles for global citizen to take responsible for their
behaviors change through inspiration of public consciousness in daily life activity. This might be an successful environmental
behavioral change to decrease the greenhouse gases by raising awareness, adjusting attitude and belief, increasing skill and
participation with practice in daily living to accomplish sustainable development.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. 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 EE and TRAIT were able to explain
the variation of endogenous factors of Inspiration of Public Consciousness (MIND) to caused Environmental Behaviors for Global
Warming Alleviation (BEH) with 89.00 percents. Therefore, the equation 1, can be written as following:
BEH = 0.32 MIND + 0.29 TRAIT + 0.75 EE ……………………..(1)
(R2 = 0.89)
Moreover, considering on structural model confirmatory factors of EE and TRAIT were able to explain the variation of
endogenous factors of Inspiration of Public Consciousness (MIND) with 97.0 percents. Therefore, the equation 2, can be written
as following:
MIND = 0.67 TRAIT + 0.58 EE …………………………………..(2)
(R2 = 0.97)