Page No 156-161
Ishita Chatterjee and Sravasti Dey
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
The present study is aimed at exploring the Pro-environmental Behavior of 150 1st year
undergraduate college students of Kolkata. Pro-environmental Behavior is a behavior,
which is generally judged in the context of the considered society in a protective way
of environmental behavior or a tribute to the healthy environment. The purpose of this
study was to find out if there was any significant difference across genders with respect
to behavior. Further, the study aimed at finding out the relation, if any, between values,
oneness belief and skepticism with pro-environmental behavior. The t-tests revealed
that there was no significant difference between male and female subjects regarding
Pro-environmental Behavior. However, with respect to Oneness belief, Skepticism about
environment, Values for environment there were significant differences between male
and female subjects. Nevertheless, Oneness belief, Skepticism about environment,
Values for environment were found to be significantly correlated with Pro-environmental
behavior. Linear regression analysis revealed that values for environment appeared as
the only significant predictor of Pro-environmental behavior