Environmental Education
Mahboubeh Soleimanpour Imran; Majid Feyz Arefi; Shima Mohammadzadeh; Hamidreza Soodagar
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnourd municipality employees in 2018. The present study is an applied research and the method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnourd municipality employees in 2018. The present study is an applied research and the method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group design. The statistical population is all 810 employees working in Bojnourd municipality and 60 employees were selected through simple random sampling. They were divided into two groups of 30 people, experimental and control group. Then, pretest was taken from both groups, and after 12 sessions of citizenship education for the experimental group, post-test was taken from both groups. For collecting pre-test and post-test data, Matson's social skills (1983), Imamqoli environmental behavior (2011) and accountability subscale NEO's five personality traits (1985) questionnaires were used. The validity of the questionnaires was of a formal and content type approved by the professors and experts. The reliability of Matson's social skills questionnaire was 0.859, the environmental behavior questionnaire 0.899 and the NEO five-personality trait questionnaire was 0.821. To analyze the collected data, descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (confirmatory factor analysis) and SPSS 22 and PLS 3 software were used. Comparison of pre-test and post-test in the control group showed that there was no significant change in the data. By comparing the pre-test and post-test in the experimental group, the change of each factor was determined that all three variables had a more factor load in the post-test state. According to the results of factor analysis in the post-test stage on the experimental group, citizenship education had the greatest impact on social responsibility.