The study of green intelligence on environmental experiences and environmental citizenship behavior

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of green intelligence education on environmental experience, environmental citizenship behavior and relationship with nature of students. The research method was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with two groups of experiment and control. The population of this research was all ۳۶۳۵۰ elementary school students in Bojnourd, and the sample size was ۳۵students in experimental group and ۳۵ studentsin control group by cluster sampling method. Data gathering tools in this study were questionnaire of Nature Guard Gardner and Moran, (۲۰۰۶), a researcher-made environmental experience questionnaire (۲۰۱۷), HeidariArjlou’s Environmental Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire (۲۰۱۵) and Nature Relationship Questionnaire by Nisbet et al., (۲۰۰۹). The validity of all questionnaires has been confirmed by experts. This test was carried out between the sample groups considered based on acceptance and commitment. In order to test the research hypotheses and answer the research questions, the inferential statistics method of Covariance Co-analysis (Equation of Variance) was evaluated by SPSS-۲۲ software. The findings of this study showed that green education training was effective on environmental experience, environmental citizenship behavior and relationship with nature of students. Therefore, training for education of green intelligence will improve the environmental experience, the citizenship behavior of the environment and the relationship with the nature of the students.

کلیدواژه ها:

Education ، Green intelligence ، Environmental experience ، Citizenship Behavior ، Connection with nature