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THE MOST COMMON ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND ADHERENCE TO SOME ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES AMONG UKRAINIANS

stmm. 2021 (4): 143-149

OL’HA MAKSYMENKO, MA in Psychology, leading sociologist at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

olga.maksimenko.65@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-2790

The paper acquaints the reader with the presentation given by the author at the 15th ESA (European Sociological Association) conference “Sociological knowledges for alternative futures” (Barcelona, Spain, 31 August — 3 September 2021), research network RN 12 “Environment and society”. The attitudes towards environmental issues shared by different groups of Ukraine’s population, along with their willingness to take up some eco-friendly practices, constituted the focus of this presentation. Structurally, it can be divided into two parts. The first one involved the analysis of findings from several nationwide surveys performed by different research institutions and polling companies from 2015 (N = 1,200) through 2020 (N = 2,100). In these surveys, a respondent was supposed to answer the following questions: a) which environmental problems (given on the list) worry him/her the most; b) who should be held responsible for such a state of affairs (the government, local authorities, politicians, big businesses, ordinary citizens, etc.); c) what the respondent is personally ready to do (or doing at the moment) in order to somewhat improve the current situation or tackle the environmental crisis. The second part of the presentation made the audience familiar with the results of surveying high school students (9th, 10th and 11th graders) in order to determine the prevailing type of world view with regard to the “human–nature” relationship (anthropo-, bio-, or ecocentrism). For this purpose, the author designed a questionnaire consisting of 30 groups of statements with three alternatives to choose. In spring 2021, the questionnaire was pretested on a sample of 42 students from three different schools located in Poltava region and in the city of Kyiv. The data indicate a slight prevalence of an ecocentric world view, especially among the students from Poltava. This is probably because the school is currently engaged in environmental projects being implemented within that community.

Keywords: environmental issues, “human–nature” relationship, anthropo-, bio-, and ecocentrism, nationwide surveys, high school students.

THE MOST COMMON ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND ADHERENCE TO SOME ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES AMONG UKRAINIANS

stmm. 2021 (4): 143-149

OL’HA MAKSYMENKO, MA in Psychology, leading sociologist at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

olga.maksimenko.65@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-2790

The paper acquaints the reader with the presentation given by the author at the 15th ESA (European Sociological Association) conference “Sociological knowledges for alternative futures” (Barcelona, Spain, 31 August — 3 September 2021), research network RN 12 “Environment and society”. The attitudes towards environmental issues shared by different groups of Ukraine’s population, along with their willingness to take up some eco-friendly practices, constituted the focus of this presentation. Structurally, it can be divided into two parts. The first one involved the analysis of findings from several nationwide surveys performed by different research institutions and polling companies from 2015 (N = 1,200) through 2020 (N = 2,100). In these surveys, a respondent was supposed to answer the following questions: a) which environmental problems (given on the list) worry him/her the most; b) who should be held responsible for such a state of affairs (the government, local authorities, politicians, big businesses, ordinary citizens, etc.); c) what the respondent is personally ready to do (or doing at the moment) in order to somewhat improve the current situation or tackle the environmental crisis. The second part of the presentation made the audience familiar with the results of surveying high school students (9th, 10th and 11th graders) in order to determine the prevailing type of world view with regard to the “human–nature” relationship (anthropo-, bio-, or ecocentrism). For this purpose, the author designed a questionnaire consisting of 30 groups of statements with three alternatives to choose. In spring 2021, the questionnaire was pretested on a sample of 42 students from three different schools located in Poltava region and in the city of Kyiv. The data indicate a slight prevalence of an ecocentric world view, especially among the students from Poltava. This is probably because the school is currently engaged in environmental projects being implemented within that community.

Keywords: environmental issues, “human–nature” relationship, anthropo-, bio-, and ecocentrism, nationwide surveys, high school students.

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