Development of Climate Change Awareness Measuring Instruments of Upper Secondary School Students
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Climate change is a major threat to the future of today’s youths. It is necessary to increase individual climate change awareness of young people to cope with climate change. Thus, effective measuring instruments are required to understand young people's awareness of climate change. This research aimed to create a measuring instrument to assess youths’ awareness of climate change and validate it by assessing three components: understanding, attitudes, and behavior. The sample was 300 upper secondary school students, obtained by multi-stage random sampling. The data were collected by an understanding of climate change test, which was a true-false item test, and a 5-point rating scale questionnaire inquiring about climate change attitudes and behavior. The reliability of the understanding test was 0.70 and the reliability of the attitudes and behavior questionnaire was 0.97, respectively. As a result of the study, the confirmatory factor analysis of climate change measuring instruments consisted of 3 components and 15 observed variables. The measuring instruments revealed construct validity and consistency between the model and empirical data. (Chi-square = 91.187, df = 72, Relative Chi-square = 1.266, p-value = 0.063 RMSEA = 0.030, RMR = 0.039, GFI = 0.961, NFI = 0.969, TLI = 0.990, CFI = 0.993).
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