High School Student’s Views and Perception about Climate Change

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Published Feb 10, 2024
https://doi.org/10.70436/nuijb.v3i02.296
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2024: ICCC (Special Issue)

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Dildar Dilsooz
Hakeem Khan Haqyar
Ehsanullah Bayan

Abstract

Climate change is a global problem, and it has negative effects on people in different ways. The purpose of this research is to investigate Dur Baba distract high school students’ views and perceptions about climate change and its negative effects, 2023. There are three high schools with a total population of 4000 students in Dur Baba district. Based on the Cochran formula, 351 participants were selected. Data were collected by the researchers, who prepared a questionnaire with a systematic random sampling method. There were 117 students from each high school and 39 participants from each class (10th, 11th and 12th). The participants were between the ages of 15 and 21 years old. The collected data were transferred to the SPSS 24 version and analyzed by the descriptive statistic method, and the reliability of the questionnaire was checked (α = 0.79). The results of this study shows that the majority of high school students know about climate change and its negative effects, as most of them are worried and view climate change as affecting their lives and academic developments. Dur Baba distract high school students have higher knowledge about climate change events, and they know that climate change causes more financial, personal,  social and academic damages in life.

Keywords

Psychological, anxiety, climate, change, cognitive-emotion, impairment, functional

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Dilsooz, D., Haqyar, H. K., & Bayan, E. (2024). High School Student’s Views and Perception about Climate Change. Nangarhar University International Journal of Biosciences, 3(02), 549–552. https://doi.org/10.70436/nuijb.v3i02.296

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