RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSING STUDENTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND CLIMATE CHANGE WORRİES
Project no. 32290 · Status: Kapanmış · 2024
Summary
<p>Climate change worry is defined as the anxiety associated with current and projected damage, loss and destruction caused by climate change and the accompanying stress and anxiety. Climate change worry is considered as an adaptive process that encourages action against the consequences of climate change. The most important way to overcome environmental problems is individuals with environmental literacy. Environmental literacy refers to the capacity of a person to demonstrate their knowledge about the environment through behavior. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between environmental literacy and climate change worry in nursing students. The sample of the cross-sectional study consists of 290 nursing students. The data of the study were collected with the Introductory Information Form, Environmental Literacy Scale and Climate Change Worry Scale prepared by the researchers. Descriptive statistics, t test, variance analysis and correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data. The mean age of the nursing students was 21.49±1.72 and 87.6% were female. It was found that the mean score of the nursing students on the Environmental Literacy Scale was 79.76±9.16, the mean score of the environmental consciousness sub-dimension was 37.69±4.71, the mean score of the environmental anxiety sub-dimension was 24.19±2.86, and the mean score of the environmental awareness sub-dimension was 17.87±3.11. The mean score of the nursing students on the Climate Change Worry Scale was 34.53±8.75, the mean score of the anxiety sub-dimension was 24.12±5.98, and the mean score of the feeling of helplessness sub-dimension was 10.41±2.97. A positive and high level correlation was found between the environmental literacy and climate change worry of the nursing students (p<0.05, r=0.81). According to the data obtained from this study, it was found that the environmental literacy of the nursing students was high and their climate change concerns were moderate.</p>