Volume 13, Issue 2, October 2015, Pages 309–315
Aria Gusti1, Bernard Isyandi2, Syaiful Bahri3, and Dedi Afandi4
1 Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia
2 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
3 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
4 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study examined the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management on primary school students by using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. Population and sample in this study were primary school students in city of Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The data collected for this study were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results of this study stated that the knowledge of the sustainable waste management has a significant relationship with the attitudes towards the sustainable waste management behavior. Attitudes towards the sustainable waste management behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control also had a significant relationship with the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. This study has helped in understanding the relative strength of the determinants of the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. The biggest strength is the relationship between the perceived behavioral control and the behavioral intention, followed by the relationship between subjective norm and the behavioral intention, and the weakest were the relationship between attitude and the behavioral intention. These findings have important implications for the school as well as for policy makers.
Author Keywords: Intention, Behavior, Sustainable, Waste, Management.
Aria Gusti1, Bernard Isyandi2, Syaiful Bahri3, and Dedi Afandi4
1 Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia
2 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
3 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
4 Doctoral Program in Environmental Sciences, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study examined the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management on primary school students by using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. Population and sample in this study were primary school students in city of Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The data collected for this study were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results of this study stated that the knowledge of the sustainable waste management has a significant relationship with the attitudes towards the sustainable waste management behavior. Attitudes towards the sustainable waste management behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control also had a significant relationship with the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. This study has helped in understanding the relative strength of the determinants of the behavioral intention to implement sustainable waste management. The biggest strength is the relationship between the perceived behavioral control and the behavioral intention, followed by the relationship between subjective norm and the behavioral intention, and the weakest were the relationship between attitude and the behavioral intention. These findings have important implications for the school as well as for policy makers.
Author Keywords: Intention, Behavior, Sustainable, Waste, Management.
How to Cite this Article
Aria Gusti, Bernard Isyandi, Syaiful Bahri, and Dedi Afandi, “The Behavioral Intention to Implement Sustainable Waste Management on Primary School Students in City of Padang, Indonesia,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 309–315, October 2015.
