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MODELLING PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BEHAVIOURS IN RELATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE VARIABLES A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY UMUT ALPER IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SEPTEMBER 2014 Approval of the Graduate School of Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Meliha ALTUNIŞIK Director I certify that this thesis satisfies all the requirements as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prof. Dr. Ceren ÖZTEKİN Head of Department This is to certify that we have read this thesis and that in our opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan ŞAHİN Prof. Dr. Ceren ÖZTEKİN Co-Supervisor Supervisor Examining Committee Members Assoc. Prof. Dr. Esin ATAV (Hacettepe Uni, SSME) Prof. Dr. Ceren ÖZTEKİN (METU, ELE) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gaye TEKSÖZ (METU, ELE) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgül YILMAZ TÜZÜN (METU, ELE) Assist. Prof. Dr. Meral HAKVERDİ CAN (Hacettepe Uni, ELE) I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last name: Umut Alper Signature : iii ABSTRACT MODELLING PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BEHAVIOURS IN RELATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE VARIABLES Alper, Umut Ph.D., Department of Elementary Science Education Supervisor: Ceren Oztekin Co- Supervisor: Elvan Sahin September 2014, 227 pages The aim of the present study is in twofold: (1) to explore pre-service science teacher’s knowledge of environmental issues, attitudinal motives (ecocentric and anthropocentric), internal locus of control, spatial optimism and temporal pessimism, and environmentally friendly behaviours and (2) to investigate the significant determinants of their environmentally friendly behaviours. Data collected from 1497 junior and senior pre-service science teachers through knowledge of environmental issues scale, environmental attitude (ecocentric and anthropocentric) scale, environmental action internal control index, environmental future scale, and behaviour inventory of environmental action: a one-year history Results indicated that Turkish pre-service science teachers who participated to the current study had inadequate level of knowledge about environmental issues. They found to endorse ecocentric attitudes, and express a high degree of internal locus of iv control as well as spatial optimism and temporal pessimism. They also found to exhibit moderate level of environmentally friendly behaviour. In order to examine the significant predictors of environmentally friendly behaviours, path analysis was conducted. Results revealed that attitudinal motives, internal locus of control, spatial optimism and temporal pessimism directly predict pre-service science teachers’ environmentally friendly behaviours whereas knowledge of environmental issues indirectly. However, knowledge of environmental issues was found to indirectly affect pro-environmental behaviours of Turkish pre-service science teachers. Keywords: Environmentally Friendly Behaviours, Attitudinal Motives, Spatial Optimism and Temporal Pessimism, Locus of Control, Knowledge of Environmental Issues. v ÖZ FEN BİLGİSİ ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ ÇEVRE DOSTU DAVRANIŞLARININ PSİKOLOJİK VE BİLİŞSEL DEĞİŞKENLER KULLANILARAK MODELLENMESİ Alper, Umut Doktora, İlköğretim Bölümü Tez Yöneticisi: Ceren Öztekin Ortak Tez Yöneticisi: Elvan Şahin Eylül 2014, 227 sayfa Bu çalışmanın amacı fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının çevre sorunları hakkındaki bilgi düzeylerinin, çevreye yönelik tutumlarının (insan merkezli ve çevre merkezli), içsel kontrol odaklarının, mekânsal iyimserlik ve zamansal kötümserlik algılarının ve çevre dostu davranışlarının araştırılması ve bu davranışların yordayıcılarının ortaya çıkarılmasıdır. Çalışmanın verileri çevre sorunları bilgi ölçeği, çevreye yönelik tutum ölçeği, çevre eylemi içsel kontrol endeksi, çevre geleceği ölçeği ve çevre eylem davranış envanteri kullanılarak 1497 fen bilgisi öğretmen adayından toplanmıştır. Betimsel analiz sonuçlarına göre, çalışmaya katılan fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının çevre sorunları hakkındaki bilgilerinin yeterli düzeyde olmadığı saptanmıştır. vi Öğretmen adayları genellikle çevre merkezli değer yönelimlerine sahip olduğu çevre problemlerine karşı içsel kontrol odaklarının yüksek olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanı sıra mekânsal iyimserlik ve zamansal kötümserlik algılarının da olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca, öğretmen adaylarının orta düzeyde çevre dostu davranış sergiledikleri bulunmuştur. Fen bilimleri öğretmen adaylarının çevre dostu davranışlarının istatistiksel olarak anlamlı yordayıcılarını belirlemek amacı ile yol analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda, öğretmen adaylarının çevreye yönelik tutumlarının, içsel kontrol odaklarının, mekânsal iyimserlik ve zamansal kötümserlik ön yargılarının çevre dostu davranışları direkt olarak etkilediği ortaya çıkmıştır. Bununla birlikte, çevre sorunları hakkındaki bilgi düzeyinin, çevre dostu davranışı dolaylı olarak etkilediği bulunmuştur. Anahtar Kelimeler: Çevre Dostu Davranış, Çevreye Yönelik Tutum, Mekânsal iyimserlik ve Zamansal Kötümserlik, İçsel Kontrol Odağı, Çevre Sorunları Hakkında Bilgi. vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Ceren OZTEKIN and co-supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan SAHIN for their guidance, advice, criticism, encouragement, motivation, patience, and insight throughout the research. I thank the members of my committee for their willingness to serve on the committee and their valuable feedback. I am very grateful to my parents Nimet, Mustafa, and my sister Gözde for their love, confidence, optimism and continuous support. I am very thankful to my colleagues Assist. Prof. Dr. Hacer ERAR, Mehmet ERKISI, and Güler KARAKAS for their moral support and encouragement. Moreover, I would like to thank to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arif OZER for checking my analysis and giving me technical support. Additionally, I would like to also thank to my friends Kader, Yasemin, Bahar, and Dekant for their endless friendship and support. Sincere gratitude also is extended to all pre-service science teachers who gave their valuable time and they shared their experiences as participants in this study. Finally, I would like to present my deepest thanks to my husband, my endless love Öncü, for his love, patience, invaluable support and understanding. This thesis was supported by BAP- 07-03-2012-106. viii

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knowledge of environmental issues scale, environmental attitude (ecocentric and anthropocentric) In other words, individuals who state that they are willing to realize the environmental actions, play environmental education, and they also believed in the power of their actions on environmental
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