RESEARCH ARTICLE
Effects of the Environmental Attitude and Responsibility on Household Waste Separation: Evidence from Iranian Married Women
Siroos Ahmadi*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 11
First Page: 25
Last Page: 34
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-11-25
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101811010025
Article History:
Received Date: 30/01/2018Revision Received Date: 18/02/2018
Acceptance Date: 24/02/2018
Electronic publication date: 28/03/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Women can play an important role in relieving problems in every society but this capacity has been neglected especially in developing countries. Given the intensification of the waste issue in Iran, this research aimed to investigate the effect of environmental attitude and responsibility of married women on household waste separation as a significant strategy to alleviating waste problem.
Methods:
This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 562 married women in two Iranian provinces; Kohgiluye and Boyerahmad, and Fars.
Findings:
Research findings using structural equation model suggested that; the environmental attitude and responsibility positively affect on HWS (R2=.66). Furthermore, HWS was significantly different in terms of demographic variables of education, age, job, city of residence, years of marriage, and number of children.
Conclusion:
The study concluded that; by improving the married women’s environmental attitude, responsibility, education level, and employment chances, HWS as an urgent need of the country will be significantly developed.
