Commitment and ecological behavior in university students in Lima and Huaraz

• Autores: García A., Lupe, Orellana M., Oswaldo, Miljánovich C., Manuel, Yanac R., Elisa, Herrera F., Edgar, Espinoza M., Marco, Campos C., Lilia, Borja G., Angela, Pizarro, Angelica, Orellana G., Daphne, Fernandini, Paul
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/12083
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/psico/article/view/12083
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Commitment ecological; ecological behaviour environmental performance; environmental commitment affective; verbal ecological commitment; real ecological commitment; Compromiso ecológico; comportamiento ecológico; compromiso ecológico afectivo; compromiso ecológico verbal; compromiso ecológico real

This research was oriented to know and compare the commitment; ecological behaviour and their factors in university students from two public universities in Lima and Huaraz; the latter affected in one of its most important hydric resources (Pastoruri snow-capped mountain). The design of the research project is descriptive-comparative; the sample was represented by 854 students; 315 are from a public university in Lima and 539 are from a public university in Huaraz; 339 are men and 515 are women; the collection instruments to collect data are the value questionnaire of ecological commitment; based on the EAKS scale adapted by Martinez; F. (2005) and the ecological behaviour scale (ECE); based on Karp’s environmental behaviour scale and adapted in Brazil by Pato; 2004; Linguistic adaptation and psychometric analysis of both instruments were realized; in both cases; the same factors remained intact; what varied was the total number of items and the writing of others without affecting content; the results establish meaningful differences in all the factors of ecological commitment in the students from Lima and Huaraz; regarding sex; we found meaningful differences only in the factor of affective and ecological real commitment; taking into consideration the ideological autodefinition; we did not find any differences in the factors. Regarding the ecological behaviour in the comparison of the universities of both cities; we found meaningful differences in activism; energy saving and recycling; regarding sex; we found differences in the factors of water and energy saving and recycling; and regarding the ideological autodefinition; we found meaningful differences in the factor of activism; energy saving and recycling.