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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 20, Issue 2, Article 3 (Jun., 2021 |
The current study aimed to uncover the underlying psychological traits of the environmental behaviour from the sample of Indonesian preservice biology teachers through generating a statistical model together with interviews. Based on the results, the current study found that two paths influence the personal conservation behaviour of Indonesian preservice biology teachers. The first path was the path that follows the theory of planned behaviour, which indicates the environmental intention as the predictor of personal conservation behaviour. The second path is the path indicated direct effect from environmental beliefs to the personal conservation behaviour, and this path was found to have more impact than the first path. The accepted hypothesis in this study generated from TPB adds more evidence that this theory can be used in explaining particular behaviour. The interviews of the representative samples confirmed these findings. Therefore, the current study concludes that increasing the environmental belief through environmental (science) education is considered the most influential effort to make Indonesian preservice biology teachers behave more friendly towards the environment.
