Environmental Risk Perception, Attitudes, and Behaviors and Educational Strategies to Shape Friendly Environmentally Behavior

摘要

In a sample of 460 7-8 years children, a complex methodology implying antecedent and consequent (contingent) strategies for changing the responsible environmentally behaviors was applied. The originality of this program consists in the development and combination of the existing environmental education approaching (attitude and values change), with consequent strategies involving positive reinforcement techniques. It's a new and provocative approach of the environmental education that will change the negative message the preventive medicine has sent until now and will help children associate, in their mind, a pro-ecological act to a potential gain. In order to encouraging and modeling friendly environmentally behaviors, a close survey of children's perception of environmental risks, their knowledge, attitudes, values and behaviors as well as their social status was assessed.