TITLE:
Environmental Protection Awareness and Practices of University College of MAIWP International (UCMI) Students
AUTHORS:
Mohd Shahreen Jamaludin, Noor Shahlawaty Mohamed Zubir, Liew Song Shen, Shahardin Mat Ali, Azlan Abas, Azmi Aziz, Mashitoh Yaacob
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Protection, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Prac-tice, Environment, Community
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.14 No.8,
August
14,
2023
ABSTRACT: Environmental issues are a problem
that should be given serious attention by the
community including college students. Environmental problems cannot be
solved exclusively through scientific, technical and legal approaches. The
direct participation and involvement of the wider community including college students, as part of the stakeholders, are
very necessary. Generally, the community
in Malaysia has a satisfactory level of environmental awareness, but the level of environmental protection practices is still low.
Therefore, it is the interest of this paper to explore whether college students
also have a high level of awareness and a low level of practices towards
environmental protection. This paper discusses self-reported levels of
awareness and practices towards environmental protection as well as the relationship
between the level of awareness and practices among the first-year students of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University College
of MAIWP International (UCMI). The data were obtained through a
quantitative survey method. The questionnaires were distributed online using Google Form to 287 college students and 100 of them responded. A frequency analysis was conducted on the collected data to obtain
frequency (n and %) and mean values, and a correlation analysis between the
college students’ level of awareness and
practices towards environmental protection was conducted to obtain correlation
coefficient (r) and significant (p) values. The findings illustrated that the
college students reported that they were
highly aware of environmental protection, and their level of environmental protection practices was also high. However, the positive
correlation coefficient between their environmental protection awareness and
practices was weak although it was statistically significant.