{"id":21021,"date":"2022-01-07T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kykpee.org\/?p=21021"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:03:56","slug":"environmental-citizenship-questionnaire-ecq-the-development-and-validation-of-an-evaluation-instrument-for-secondary-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kykpee.org\/en\/environmental-citizenship-questionnaire-ecq-the-development-and-validation-of-an-evaluation-instrument-for-secondary-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ): The Development and Validation of an Evaluation Instrument for Secondary School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><div class=\"tie-padding\" style=\"padding-left:10%; padding-right:10%;\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D. (2020). Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ): The development and validation of an evaluation instrument for secondary school students.\u00a0<i>Sustainability<\/i>,\u00a0<i>12<\/i>(3), 821.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><div class=\"tie-padding\" style=\"padding-left:10%; padding-right:10%;\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"html-abstract-title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-abstract in-tab hypothesis_container\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Environmental citizenship is very important in sustainability research. The criticality of the observed environmental crisis requires capable and competent environmental citizens who can act as agents of change to achieve sustainability. This research presents the validation of the Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ) for assessing the environmental citizenship of secondary school students. To this end, Principal Component Analysis has been performed through the use of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. In addition, there has been a verification of sphericity and a measure of sampling adequacy using the Bartlett\u2019s and Kaiser\u2013Meyer\u2013Olkin (KMO) tests, respectively. Cronbach\u2019s Alpha, eigenvalues and percentage of variance as well as Pearson\u2019s correlation were also estimated. Using the data of 520 students in 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade, the ECQ showed very good results in all measurements performed, demonstrating high internal consistency, reliability and discriminant validity. From the factor analysis were derived nine factors with 76 items in total. Cronbach\u2019s Alpha was greater than 0.702, indicating high reliability in all factors. The possible contribution of the ECQ in different contexts and educational frames and in sustainability education is discussed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kykpee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ECQ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20996\" src=\"https:\/\/kykpee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ECQ.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kykpee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ECQ.png 553w, https:\/\/kykpee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ECQ-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div style=\"margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px;\" class=\"divider divider-normal\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Please find attached\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/12\/3\/821\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>the related article.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D. (2020). Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ): The development and validation of an evaluation instrument for secondary school students.\u00a0Sustainability,\u00a012(3), 821. Abstract: Environmental citizenship is very important in sustainability research. The criticality of the observed environmental crisis requires capable and competent environmental citizens who can act as agents of change to achieve sustainability. 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