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In recent years, the amount of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) that participated environmental
protection, conservation and environmental education are
increasing in Taiwan, the Republic of China. The
environmental attitudes of these NGO''''s members may also
influence the general public. The purpose of the research is
first, to investigate these key members'''' attitudes toward
environmental issues and the environment, second, to
understand the influence of selected attribute variables on
environmental attitudes.
The research adopted Q sort technique and a
questionnaire in the survey. Purposive sampling method was
used for each of NGOs. A Q set contains 46 adjectives was
used. The Q sort were selected and translated from the Q set
which were originally developed by Chidwood in 1977. A
questionnaire with 29 questions was developed for the study.
A group of experts was used to validate the contents. Also a
pilot test was conducted on eight NGO. The content of the
questionnaire includes three aspects: environmental
paradigm, current environmental issues, and willingness for
action.
The survey results show that most of the research
subjects'''' environmental attitudes were quite positive and
active. They are involved, committed, concerned, serious and
supportive about environmental protection, but they lack
confidence in self-ability and knowledge, and some of them
felt worried and defeated. Variables investigated in the
research include sex, age, education degree, major and
environmental experience. These variables did not affect NGO
members'''' attitudes in most of environmental issues, but do
have made statistical significant difference in some
environmental issues.
Some major findings are: the environmental attitudes of
female and younger are more active than male''''s and elders'''';
the attitudes with regard to environmental management policy
related to air control fee, the group with lower education
level is less supportive than the respondents with higher
education; the members who works longer in NGO do not insist
on ecological conservation; respondents'''' major only
influenced the attitude of the choice between economic
development and environmental quality.
More than half of the respondents have a tendency to
support the ideas which related to new environmental
paradigm.
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