نموذج سببي لتفسير الاتجاهات نحو البيئة لدى طلبة جامعة الخرطوم

This study aimed to elucidate the causal relations which link some variables and explain the attitudes towards environment amongst the students of Khartoum University. The researcher adopted the causal approach and the comparative causal approach as a research methodology. The size of the sample amounted to 320 male and female students in the various Science and Humanities Faculties in the preliminary and final classes, in addition to 40 final male and female students of the faculty of Public Hygiene and Environmental Health.\\r\\n\\r\\nSeveral instruments were used for data collection. The researcher designed herself the basic data form, the attitudes towards the environment scale, and the environmental education scale. In the same way the researcher used the University Students ( males and females ) Religious Behavior Scale which was designed by Dr. Muhayed M.E. Mustafa (1999). In the statistical analysis of data, path analysis and the residual matrix were employed. The study resulted in that there are causal relations between the following variables: gender and the environmental behavior – the class level and the environmental knowledge – the academic stream and the environmental knowledge – the environmental education and each of the following: the environmental knowledge – the reaction to environmental pollution, and the environmental behavior – religious behavior and the environmental behavior – the environmental knowledge and reaction to environmental pollution – the reaction to environmental pollution and the environmental behavior.