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Factors Influencing Adults' Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors and the Role of Environmental Schools in Influencing their Communities
The present study revisits a subfield of environmental education: significant
life experiences, which studies the influences that shape the development of
environmental stewardship. In the present study, we examine the effect of various
formative experiences on a group of adults and analyze the role of school,
as a formative influence on the parents of the students. By employing factor
analysis, we were able to differentiate between groups of variables influencing
attitudes and those influencing behavior. Cluster analysis enabled us to
differentiate between types of respondents in accordance to their responsiveness
to influencing experiences. The results draw attention to (a) the
different pathways by which environmental attitudes and behaviors are influenced;
(b) the important role of the inner self (“personality”) in organizing
and giving meaning to all other formative influences; and (c) the effectiveness
of environmental schools in urban communities in Israel, in influencing the
behavior of students’ parents